hornpipe query

Subject: hornpipe query
From: GUEST,O'Malley
Date: 03 May 01 - 09:22 PM

Is there, or has there ever been an instrument called a hornpipe? If so what is it and what does it look like,where can I purchase one ?

Subject: RE: hornpipe query
From: Sorcha
Date: 03 May 01 - 09:41 PM

I think there were probably several....I can think of the shofar, a Ram's horn trumpet, and the padoe, a Burmese instrument made from buffalo horn. There are also North American horns with a mouthpiece made from bison horns. Does anybody use panpipes made of horn?

I am sure there are more, but I don't know the relationshipe between "horn pipe"--instrument and "hornpipe"--tune, if there is one.

Subject: RE: hornpipe query
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 May 01 - 02:04 AM

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Subject: RE: hornpipe query
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 04 May 01 - 08:48 AM

The Hornpipe was a single-reed pipe, originally made out of a bored cow-horn or similar, and played in various forms throughout Europe and the Middle East; in Wales, for example, it was known as the  Pibcorn,  in Scotland it was the Stockhorn.

More pictures and soundsamples at  Ancestral Instruments.

There seems to be no particular connection, apart from the name, with the dance form.

Malcolm

Subject: RE: hornpipe query
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 May 01 - 09:04 AM

I have an instrument called a gemshorn which is a recreation of an old European one made from the horn of the gesmbok of the Alps. Since gemsboks are now quite rare, my gemshorn is made from the horn of a Texas longhorn.

The gemshorn is basically a curved section of horn, hollowed out and with finger holes drilled in it. It has a sweet tone and a range of an octave plus one note. There are makers selling them in horn and in plastic. Both the horn and the plastic have a nice feel to them. They are fingered like recorders, but obviously don't have as big a range.

I played my gemshorn in a concert (no sound system)in a chruch, and people tell me it carried well. Since I was fighting off a viola da gamba, that's impressive.

I suppose you could find them by searching for gemshorn on the net, or you could go to the Kelishek site. (That's where mine came from.)

Subject: RE: hornpipe query
From: English Jon
Date: 04 May 01 - 09:23 AM

Dave Marshall at ancestral instruments is a good place to start. Also try early music shop, manningham lane, bradford.

As far as I know, hornpipe tunes were named after the instrument on which they were commonly played, the 4/4 with anacrusis qualifier coming much later.

Have fun,

Jon