How to hold the pipe and tabor The tabor pipe is a one-handed pipe. There are two main ‘holds’. The Pipers Hold The Recorder Hold These holds are demonstrated on our video The Piper’s Hold With the pipers hold, you cover the holes with pads between the 1st & 2nd joints of the fingers. The Recorder Hold In this hold you cover the holes with the tips of the fingers Fingering Charts Overtones