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pipe and tabor

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pipe and tabor

Combination of two early musical instruments: a small pipe of the recorder type, but held with one hand only while the other beats the tabor, a small drum without snares hung round the player's shoulder or waist. The instruments have been revived for folk-dancing.
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The air resounds with the pipe and tabor, and the drums and trumpets of the showmen shouting at the doors of their caravans, over which tremendous pictures of the wonders to be seen within hang temptingly; while through all rises the shrill "root-too-too-too" of Mr.
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