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Thread #109833   Message #2735048
Posted By: Tug the Cox
30-Sep-09 - 11:59 AM
Thread Name: Morris Dancers on Scrimshaw Bone Clapper
Subject: RE: Morris Dancers on Scrimshaw Bone Clapper
Actually the pipe and tabor is from an earlier period. All the collected tabors from the cotswolds were small drums suspended below the pipe playing hand.
See http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/ijs/pipe-and-tabor.html

The taborer also wouldn't have been dressed in the same way as the dancers, this is another revival affectation, neither would the hhorseman have worn baldricks.