Tabor (instrument)

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Tabor, or tabret, refers to a portable snare drum. It has been used in the military as a marching instrument, and has been used as accompaniment in parades and processions.

The tabor is widely known as accompaniment for the fife and other small flutes, and most famously as the percussive element in the "pipe and tabor" one man band configuration.

In Spain, a deep drum is used for a tabor by pipe and taborers, and in England a shallow tom tom is sometimes used.