tabor

Small drum with a high, narrow body and small drum-heads, originally made of animal skin, sounding an indefinite pitch and struck with drumsticks. Historically, it was rarely used alone, but accompanied a pipe of a fife or recorder type, similar to the modern tin whistle. The tabor is occasionally used in the modern orchestra to produce a dry, dull, percussive sound, and has been revived for folk-dancing.

Tabor

Cycle of symphonic poems by Bedřich Smetana; see Má Vlast.

Tabor

City in southwestern Iowa, 40 km/25 mi southeast of Council Bluffs; population (1996 est) 1,000. It is an agricultural community.

Before the Civil War it was an abolitionist centre, containing a station on the Underground Railroad and an arsenal and hospital for antislavery fighters in nearby Kansas.

Todd House, the house of the Reverend John Todd, built in 1855, the second house in Tabor, was used as a safe haven for runaway slaves on the underground railroad. The slaves stayed in an upstairs room with a hidden window giving a view of the road.

Tabor

Town in southeastern South Dakota, 21 km/13 mi northwest of Yankton; population (1990) 400. It is in a livestock and grain producing area.

It was founded by the Hutterites, a Christian group believing in complete social equality and the sharing of property.