A tabor, tabour, tabret (Welsh: Tabwrdd), tambour de Provence, Provençal tambourin or Catalan tamborí is a portable snare drum, typically played either with one hand or with two drumsticks.

Catalan: tambor, French: tambour, Italian: tamburo[3] Militaries may use the tabor as a marching instrument; it can accompany parades and processions.

A tabor has a cylindrical wood shell, two skin heads tightened by rope tension, a leather strap, and an adjustable snare.

It is played by just one short conical stick, made from bone or ivory,[4] which usually strikes the snare head.

Darius Milhaud has been named one of the foremost composers of modern (mid-20th century) music for the tabor by Morris Goldenberg.

In classical repertoire the tabor is usually played with two sticks, as many pieces call for speeds that are unwieldy for a single hand.

In many cases composers' scores have been mistranslated with the erroneous call for tambour de basque or tambourine when the piece was originally intended for tabor.

[5] The larger 2-sticked version was predominantly used in military contexts,[5][9] while the smaller single-sticked tabor was retained for dance music.