tabor

/'teibə/

Thân thiện

A musician plays a lively tune on a tabor with one hand.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A small drum with one head of soft calfskin: A tabor is a small, portable drum, traditionally with a single drumhead made from calfskin. It is often played with one hand while the other hand plays a pipe or flute.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • The medieval minstrel played a lively tune on his pipe while beating the tabor with his other hand.
  • In historical reenactments, you can often hear the distinctive sound of a tabor accompanying folk dances.

Advanced Usage

• "To play the tabor and pipe": This phrase refers to the traditional practice of playing a three-holed pipe with one hand and a tabor drum with the other, a common form of one-person music in medieval and Renaissance Europe.
  • The performer skillfully demonstrated how to play the tabor and pipe simultaneously.

Variants and Related Words

• Tabour (n): An alternative, chiefly British, spelling of "tabor."
• Taborer (n): A person who plays a tabor.
  • The taborer kept a steady rhythm for the dancers.

Synonyms

• Small drum: A general term for a compact percussion instrument.
• Tambour (n): A historical term for a drum or a frame for embroidery, sometimes used interchangeably with "tabor" in older texts.

Related Phrases

• Tabor and pipe: A specific musical duo or style involving the simultaneous playing of these two instruments.
  • The music of tabor and pipe was popular at village fairs.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a small drum with one head of soft calfskin

Từ đồng nghĩa

• tabour