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Tabor

The tabor is a musical instrument. Listen to 1 recording and learn how it makes its sound.

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CRA09583-79 Tábor
3:02CC BY-SA 4.0by Czech RadioWikimedia Commons
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From Wikipedia

A tabor, tabour, tabret (Welsh: Tabwrdd), tambour de Provence, Provençal tambourin or Catalan tamborí is a double-skinned portable drum, often with a gut snare on the batter head, typically played with a single stick in the right hand. It is often used to provide a rhythm to accompany a tune played simultaneously by the same player on a pipe. This combination is known as pipe and tabor.

The word "tabor" (formerly sometimes spelt "taber") is an English variant of the Persian word tabīr, meaning "drum"—cf. Catalan: tambor, French: tambour, Italian: tamburo

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