Anyone know where I could find some good one-octave tunes (preferrable Morris) online to play on my Tabor pipe? I’ve found a few but not many more than that! Thanks!
A favorite of mine is The Skye Boat Song. One octave, very pretty tune.
And don’t forget Amazing Grace.
Mike
slowair, I like your name, could be mine too.
I don’t have any specifics, but try searching for bagpipe or ocarina music – they both have ranges of nine notes, so a lot of tunes will probably be an octave.
And you can look at the little book George Kelischek puts out called “Tune Book 2” which consists of 104 one-octave tunes. Check Susato’s website for it, if you can’t find it elsewhere. Many of these tunes are suitable for tabor pipe. A lot are written in C, so you might have to learn to transpose. Others are written in D, so if you want to play them all, you’ll have to be able to transpose one of the two keys, depending on which one you normally use for playing.
Me, I’m still trying to get a second tune on the silly thing. I can play Les Boufons, the first actual tune in the Susato Tabor Pipe Primer. I play it far too often. I need to get a quieter tabor pipe (is there such a thing?) and learn a few tunes I can play in the house.
-Patrick
So you are learning the tabor pipe too?? They are funny things, aren’t they! I got a D and then decided it was way too high and shrill… broke down and got a low G, which I like much better. However, it IS harder to hold onto! I’m experimenting with little drums too. One problem I’m having is that when I strike the drum it spins and then when I go to strike it again the stick doesn’t hit the head. ANy suggestions?
I’m still tooting on the whistle. Have not yet tried to get a drum going. I have seen video of a taborist who used a honking big side drum with his high D pipe. It looked like it fastened at his waist. That bad boy isn’t going to be twisting from regular playing!
When I shell out the meager cash for a cheap tabor, I will see what can be done to keep it in place. Until then, all I can do is speculate. Have you tried looking for photos online of how others hold it?
Here’s a guy with a side drum:
http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/pipetabr.htm
This gent has it on the wrist, but looks like he might be bracing it against the body:
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/phil.day/gpt18.htm
Here’s a small drum at the waist, using a shoulder strap:
http://freewebworks.com/silverbow/stick/stktabr.htm
There are lots of pictures on the internet, but this gives some idea of how different folks hold the tabor. The line drawings I keep seeing of the tabor dangling from the wrist without any external support just seem comical now that I think of the possibility of the drum spinning from being struck.
Gotta get me a tabor. Maybe a low G pipe, too. Need more money…
-Patrick
The lord of the dance is only one octave, I think.
It’s probably in your church’s hymnal, if you go to church (If not, ask a friend who does go to church to run it through the xerox next sunday). It’s in the Methodist one, and those blue ones some Lutheran churches have in addition to the old green hymnals. It’s an old shaker tune, if I remember the footnote correctly, lots of fun to play…