tabor pipe

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   a small fipple flute that is played with the left hand while the right hand is free to beat a tabor

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Questions about tabor pipe

What does tabor pipe mean?

tabor pipe means "a small fipple flute that is played with the left hand while the right hand is free to beat a tabor".

Is tabor pipe a common word?

tabor pipe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.