Illustration of tabor
variants
or less commonly tabour
: a small drum with one head of soft calfskin used to accompany a pipe or fife played by the same person
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Under her direction, the show featured a pit band of musicians who played Elizabethan instruments like the shawm, sackbut, theorbo, hurdy-gurdy, cittern, tabor and rauschpfeife.
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Alex Traub, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
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Alex Traub, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
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“Tabor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tabor. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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tabor
noun
ta·bor
ˈtā-bər 
: a small drum with one head used to accompany a pipe played by the same person
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