Anyone have experience with Tabor pipe? Question about keys.
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 11:21 am
I play tin whistle and am interested in trying out the Tabor pipe, basically a tin whistle with only three bottom holes. I love that this frees up a hand for a drum!
I ordered a Susato Taboriole in G because I think a D will be way too loud and shrill to practice around my family. (Playable notes start in what is the second octave of a normal D tin whistle).
Had anyone tried their hand at the Tabor pipe? Any advice coming from tin whistle? I ordered a copy of the method book by Dick Bagwell which seems to be the authority.
Maybe this will become clear once I get the method book, but do people usually play different keyed Tabor pipes like tin whistles with regard to alternate fingerings? Tin whistlers often finger always as if playing a D whistle, letting the instrument auto transpose into Bb on a Bb whistle for example.
On a Tabor pipe, is it common to just learn the blowing and fingering for a D pipe and use that always?
Or is it more common to read the music properly and finger the actual note? I would imagine this way would be preferred since as far as I can find, the Tabor pipe can't easily do two keys - (like how whistlers in D can do keys of D and G with a cross fingering for C nat) - just the single key it is in. Though I did see the Tabor society talks about a half hole for C nat on a D Tabor pipe, but I have had really poor success with half holes on tin whistle.
Any other tips would be really appreciated!
I ordered a Susato Taboriole in G because I think a D will be way too loud and shrill to practice around my family. (Playable notes start in what is the second octave of a normal D tin whistle).
Had anyone tried their hand at the Tabor pipe? Any advice coming from tin whistle? I ordered a copy of the method book by Dick Bagwell which seems to be the authority.
Maybe this will become clear once I get the method book, but do people usually play different keyed Tabor pipes like tin whistles with regard to alternate fingerings? Tin whistlers often finger always as if playing a D whistle, letting the instrument auto transpose into Bb on a Bb whistle for example.
On a Tabor pipe, is it common to just learn the blowing and fingering for a D pipe and use that always?
Or is it more common to read the music properly and finger the actual note? I would imagine this way would be preferred since as far as I can find, the Tabor pipe can't easily do two keys - (like how whistlers in D can do keys of D and G with a cross fingering for C nat) - just the single key it is in. Though I did see the Tabor society talks about a half hole for C nat on a D Tabor pipe, but I have had really poor success with half holes on tin whistle.
Any other tips would be really appreciated!