What is Tamburello?
{{Sports}} '''Tamburello''' or '''pallatamburello''' is a traditional [[sport]] of [[Italy]] since [[16th century]]. It has this name because they play with a roundish and oval tool named ''tamburello'' or ''tambourine'' in [[English language]]. Various forms of tamburello are popular in several nations of the [[world]] currently.{{fact|date=July 2022}} ==Forms== [[Image:Tambourin02.png|thumb|left|205px|roundish tambourin and Ball]] === Tamburello open === This form is also named ''classic'' and each team regularly has 5 players in open playing field 80 [[metre]]s long and 20 large. Players use roundish tambourines during actions and they serve with oval tambourines. A rubber ball of 88 [[gram]]s is used and the team which wins 13 games is final winner of the match: each game consists of 4 points. Professional Italian tamburello league is top level of competitions: in 2002 14 teams competed.<ref>[http://www.geocities.com/ilgetto/sq2002.htm List of professional teams]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> A variant is played in a kind of [[stadium]], with lateral wall, named ''sferisterio'' or ''sferodromo'' in [[Italian language]].<ref>[http://www.clubsportivofirenze.it/immagini/sferisterio/05280031.JPG Sferisterio of Florence]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> === Tamburello indoor === Three players regularly form a side in indoor shorted courts. ===Tambutennis === Two players regularly form a side in courts divided by a net like [[tennis]]. === Tambeach === One or two players regularly form a side on beach courts divided by a net like [[beach tennis]]. ==Related pages== *[[Palla]] == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == *[http://www.giacopuzzi.net/prodotti/classic/index.htm Italian manufacturer of tambourines] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307043125/http://www.giacopuzzi.net/prodotti/classic/index.htm |date=2008-03-07 }} {{in lang|it}} === Video === *[http://www.gardanetwork.tv/tambur