Tamburello, named Tambass in Piedmont, is a court game invented in the northern provinces of Italy during the 16th century.

[1] It is a modification of the ancient game of pallone col bracciale, bearing the same general relation to it as Squash does to Racquets.

A full-sized tamburello court, which need not be as true and even as that for pallone, is 90 to 100 yards (82 to 91 m) long and half as wide, divided laterally through the middle by a line (cordino) into two equal spaces, the battuta and the rimessa.

In tambutennis two players regularly stand in each side on a court split in half by a net like tennis.

Tambourelli is form which was started by Scottish players and it is similar to tambeach and badminton because they play with a shuttlecock.