The Taborers Session – Pipe and Tabor

Sessions are back! – Drop in or pop in, play, question or listen.

At agreed dates emailed to members, an online session for TTS Members to get together, chat and play. Typically Sunday from 4 – 6pm UK time, sometimes 2nd Sunday of the month.

Participate in Zoom.

The Zoom link is available here, and distributed via the TTS email and group discussion list.

Dates:

2025 ONWARDS A NEW LINK IS BEING USED,

Click here for the link

17 August 2025 – Time 4-6pm (UK time)

Repertoire:

Play what you want, or in most sessions we have a theme or a couple of tunes to add to our repertoire.

For August we have:

Tunes from Terry Carter’s Taborer’s Treasury Vol 2 –
Bear Dance (E minor) p. 27 mp3
Strike It Up Tabor p. 6 mp3
Ungaresca p. 7 mp3

For April we have:

Tunes from Terry Carter’s great new Taborer’s Treasury vol 9 –
Rufty tufty p. 32 pdf mp3
Row Well p. 31
Portsmouth p.24 pdf of Row Well and Portsmouth

For Jan we have:

Winter Warmer tunes –
La Duchess Gresley
Petit Riens
Morvan Bourree Set – Up in the Meadow and Morvan
Danse de Cleves pdf Youtube

For Dec we have:

All in Taborer’s Treasury Volume 6 “Let’s Celebrate” –

For people who haven’t got TT6 here are the keys and starting notes for the set carols using a D pipe:

Patapan p11: key E min start on E
Joy To The World p8: key D maj start on high D
We Three Kings p16: key E min start on B
Infant Holy p7: key G maj start Low D (nice on a C pipe)

For Nov we have :

Row Row Row Your Boat pdf
Chairs to Mend and Brother Joseph pdf

For Oct we have:

Cushion Dance in Treasury Vol. 4 page 31
Emma’s Waltz pdf mp3

For Sep we have:

Another go at Morvan Bourree Set – Up in the Meadow and Morvan.

Also Te Deum – Charpentier score mp3

For Aug we have:

Shepherd’s Hey Adderbury (search Taborers Society Youtube)

Morvan Bourree Set – Up in the Meadow and Morvan.

For Mar we have:

Bobby Shaftoe TT5 page 3

Lavender’s Blue TT6 page 25

The Valentine – Fieldtown in this pdf

For Jan we have:

Again from the Dec PDF Quand Hiver by Colin Muset MP3, plus a couple from the draft Winter Warmer list – Buffens and Argiers.

For Dec we have:

Past Three O’Clock MP3, Quand Hiver by Colin Muset MP3, O Hannukah MP3 and El Noi de la Mare MP3, PDF of all.

For Nov we have:

Death and the Lady tune for the Gunpowder Plot (and other ballads) PDF MIDI MP3
Fireworks La Rejouissance by Handel – TT6 p62

For May we have:

British Grenadiers – TT6 p29
Bower Processional – TT6 p47
Now Is the Month of Maying – TT2 p8
Morris Call TT3 p34 USE THE ALTERNATIVE “A” MUSIC (line 4&5 followed by B music in line 2 & 3) play on D pipe
Morris Call TT3 p34 WHOLE OF THE G MAJ VERSION (lines 1,2 & 3) play on G pipe

For April we have:

Argiers and All in a Garden Green

For March we have:

1. Cantiga CSM 119 TT1 page 10

2. Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer TT6 page 26 for St David’s Day

3.(reserve) Cockles and Mussels TT6 page 27 for St Patrick’s Day

For February we have:

Room for the Cuckolds Bucknell

Black Nag

Banbury Bill Bampton

For January we have:

Gathering Peascods

Half Hannikin

Sellinger’s Round by William Byrd

Glorishears Bampton (also on Youtube)

For December we have:

From Elizabeth Christina –
Chilly chilly Winter play on a G pipe using this D pipe fingering
Hey Ho and a soulin

From Terry Carter’s Taborer’s Treasury Volume 6:

(P=Page: K= Key: S=Starting note)

Il est ne le divin Enfant P2 K=G maj S=Low D
Ding Dong Merrily on High P4 K=G maj S=G
God Rest Ye Merry P5 K=E minor S=E
Infant Holy P7 K=G maj S=Low D
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel P 10 K=E minor S=E
Sussex Carol P 13 K G maajor S=High D
Jingle Bells P8 K G major S=Low D
We Wish You a Merry Christmas P 17 K= G maj S=Low D

For November we have:

“Old Tom of Oxford “(BAMPTON JIG ) TT3 page 7 (mp3)
“Hunting the Squirrel “(HEADINGTON) in key of D MAJOR TT3 page 19 (Not to be confused with “Hunt The Squirrel” Playford TT2 page 16) (mp3)
“Argeers” (PLAYFORD) TT2 page 13 (mp3)

For Summer we have our Festival tunes plus any emailed on our Google Group.

For May we have TT4 Red House, Ukrainian National Anthem, and TT6 When the Saints.

For April we have TT6 Sumer is Icumen In, British Grenadiers, and Hot Cross Buns.

For March Taborers proposed Carnival and banishing Winter

For February Taborers proposed Taborers Treasury 6:

Gong Xi p 42
Happy New Year Chinese(Clementine) p43
Le Roi d’Yvetot p 24
Lavender’s Blue p 25

For January Taborers proposed Winter and Plough Monday.

Taborer’s Treasury vol 6 – 12 Days of Christmas , Auld Lang Syne, and Noel Nouvelet p. 10

For December Taborers proposed Christmas and Midwinter.

Carols While Shepherds, O Xmas Tree, We Wish You a Merry Xmas.

For November Taborers proposed Morris (Taborer’s Treasury vol 3), including these:

Bledington: Idbury Hill

Bucknell: Saturday Night

Fieldtown: The Rose

Headington: Blue Eyed Stranger

Lichfield: Ring O’Bells

Sherborne: Cuckoo’s Nest, Monks’ March

For October Terry has proposed the following:

English Pavan & Galliard & Branle (Gervaise) (Download PDF)

English Pavan & Galliard mp3

Branle (Gervaise) mp3

Paso el Agoa mp3

June Featured Tunes – Maritime Music.

Here are some suggested tunes that we can play together.

What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor

Drunken Sailor	PDF	MP3	Video
Row Yer Boat	PDF	MP3	Video
Rule Britannia	PDF	MP3	Video

We are also working on a project to make our own TikTok response to the famous Wellerman video.

The Wellerman

January-April 2021 we selected tunes from The Taborers’ Treasury. These tunebooks have been compiled by Terry Carter. You can purchase the books from Terry in our Book Store
We will also choose a couple of easy ‘Big Dub’ tunes that everyone can join in with.