Can anyone help, please?Taborer's pipe-finger clip

Subject: Can anyone help, please ?
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 10:38 AM

My taborer's pipe is the "cheap and cheerful" (?) flageolet type.

I am left handed, and my previous pipes - both made by Jim Jones of Cinderford, both stolen at Folk Festivals - had a clip for the little finger.

Does anyone know where I might get one, or codge one, please ?

Also, where might I get a "cheap and cheerful" tabor ?

Thanks, in advance.

Subject: RE: Can anyone help, please ?
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 10:46 AM

You're far more likely to get useful answers if you start this thread again with your request in the Subject line! your Subject line is far too vague - it could be asking for help with anything, and the one person who might have the answer might not bother to look at it. Sorry, but it's true!

Subject: RE: Can anyone help, please ?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 10:51 AM

For a tabor I use a small Turkish dumbek; cheap (£14), cheerful & versatile (and tunable) sounding a lot better than anything you'd pay 10x the price for.

Both my pipes are old Overtons, G & lo-D; I've tried the plastic Susato pipes which have finger / thumb clips, and they sound good, and are cheap & cheerful too.

Sad to think of such things getting pinched at folk festivals though.

Subject: RE: Can anyone help, please?Taborer's pipe-finger clip
From: squeezebox-kc
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 12:55 PM

f your pipe is brass then go to a plumbers merchants and buy a brass olive like used in pipe fittings 22mm should do it and then solder it onto the whistle where it is most suitable. easy peasy

ken

Subject: RE: Can anyone help, please?Taborer's pipe-finger clip
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 05:35 PM

I have used small plastic electrical cable ties. I made a loop to fit the supporting finger and cut the surplus off using a sharp knife. I then fastened this loop to the barrel of the pipe with a second cable tie pulled tight.
It allows me to suspend the pipe from my third finger and frees up the little finger for half covering the end of the pipe, giving an extra accidental.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Can anyone help, please?Taborer's pipe-finger clip
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 04:43 AM

Dear Insane Beard, Squeezeboxkc and GtD - Thank you all very much.

It is indeed sad that my Jim Jones pipes were stolen, but quite true - my first, which had been a birthday present, was stolen at Letterkenny FF in 1977, and my second, an anniversary present from

my beloved, was lifted at a Day of Dance at Liverpool Polytechnic, during my dancing with Southport Swords.

For anyone who has a taborer's pipe which they value, make a "case" for it or them which you can sling around your neck.

Jim Jones of Cinderford used to recommend this whenever he supplied a pipe ; and, like an idiot, I thought |"Nah - no folkie would ever rip another folkie off !"

jesus bless my innocence.

Bryn

Subject: RE: Can anyone help, please?Taborer's pipe-finger clip
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 11:20 AM

I'm not much of a Pipe & Taborer, but I did make a taborer's pipe from a Generation D whistle. I bored through the third hole with a bit the same size as the hole and made a hole in the back of the whistle. I then covered all the holes on the front of the whistle except the bootm two.
I'm curious as to what kind of drum you expert (or more expert than I) Pipe & Taborers use. Mine is a twelve inch frame drum with no snare.