Three-hole pipe

Infobox Instrument
name=Three-hole pipe
names=


classification=
*Wind
*Woodwind
range=1-2 octaves
related=
*Tinwhistle
*Recorder
musicians=
articles=The three-hole pipe, also commonly known as Tabor pipe is a wind instrument designed to be played by one hand, leaving the other hand free to play a tabor drum, bell, psalterium or Tambourin à cordes, bones, triangle or other percussive instrument.

The three-hole pipe's origins are not known, but it dates back at least to the 11th Century. [ [http://www.pipeandtabor.org The Taborer's Society] ]

It was popular from an early date in France, the Iberian Peninsula and Great Britain and remains in use there today. [ [http://www.pipeandtabor.org/worldwide.htm The Pipe and Tabor Worldwide] ] In the Basque Country it has increasingly gained momentum and prestige during the last century, especially during the last years of Franco's dictatorship, following that it turned into a hallmark of Basque identity and folk culture. New pipe and tabor schools have cropped up since throughout the country, providing along with tabor the musical background for traditional Basque dance ensembles (see txistu).

The most common form of tabor pipe in the Basque region is tuned "tone, semitone, tone". The most common form in Provence is tuned "tone, tone, tone". The English tabor pipe is commonly tuned "tone, tone, semitone", and corresponds to the three lowest holes of a tinwhistle. [ [http://www.pipeandtabor.org/worldwide.htm The Pipe and Tabor Worldwide] ]

ee also

* Fipple
* Flabiol
* Flageolet
* Jacques de Vaucanson
* Morris dance
* Pipe and Tabor

References

External links

* [http://www.pipeandtabor.org The Taborers' Society]
* [http://www.sussexbrew.freeuk.com/intropt.htm A Plain and Easy Introduction to the English Pipe and Tabor]
* [http://chrisbrady.itgo.com/pipntab/pipntab.htm Address to a Society of Morris Dancers, 1914] by Sir Francis Darwin