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TAMBURELLO (called in Piedmont Tabasso)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 388 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TAMBURELLO (called in See also:Piedmont Tabasso) , a See also:court See also:game popular in See also:Italy, particularly in the See also:northern provinces. It is a modification of the See also:ancient game of See also:Pallone (q.v.), bearing the same See also:general relation to it as Squash does to See also:Racquets. A full-sized Tamburello Court, which need not be as true and even as that for Pallone, is 90 to 100 yards See also:long and See also:half as wide, divided laterally through the See also:middle by a See also:line (cordino) into two equal spaces, the battuta and the rimessa. Three players regularly See also:form a See also:side, each carrying in one See also:hand an See also:implement called tamburello, resembling a See also:tambourine (whence the name), which is a See also:round See also:frame of See also:wood upon which is tightly stretched a See also:cover of See also:horse-hide. A See also:rubber See also:ball about the See also:size of a See also:lawn-See also:tennis ball is used. One of the players opens the service (battuta), which is made from a small square called the trampolino, situated at one corner of the battuta but outside the court. The service must be over the middle line. The ball must then be See also:hit from side to side over the line, the side failing to return it or sending it out of court losing a point. The game is scored like lawn-tennis, four points constituting a game, counting 15+ 15 +10+10. Tamburello, a less expensive game than Pallone, is popular with the See also:lower classes, who use it as a See also:medium for betting.

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