Tabor pipe

Tabor pipe (Ger.: Trommelpfeife), the pipe of the *pipe and tabor ensemble. The typical pipe is a flageolet type, with 2 front fingerholes and a rear thumbhole, narrow cylindrical or slightly tapering bore, usually made of boxwood, and held in the left hand. Commonly pitched in D, it is devoid of keys and has a length of some 30 cm. (12 in.). (These remarks do not apply to the *fluviol.) The pedal tone is not obtainable, and the scale starts on the second harmonic, so that 3 fingerholes suffice…