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Even if the Tambourstab (mace) in the narrow sense not for an instrument should touched. The tambourstick serves not only make the measure, display or marches and demolish, but also for example loudly and quietly to label passages and tips on to make ready perform and takeover the instruments.

In March, as well as perform by stand exist Stabführer (drum major-tambourmajor) using certain movements with a mace commands to the band. These commands are establish with the rules of uniform management.

These commands can be replacing verbal instructions and show as the beginning, or end the early termination of the songs (demolished) or a change in march. In addition there are musical instructions for the intonation of speech.

The tactics shows at the unlike the brass - the top of the staff from the top. Our bar is with a red and white string and like wrapped.

The Tambourmajor was from medieval to modern times leader of the drummer, the armys of the battlefield or parade argued. In doing so conducted originally the ensign with its flag or the major the drummer with an approximately hip high rod. The word tambourmajor is misleading, as it is generally not a military rank, but an office that lower grades (i.e. not officers) could be carried out.

The term derives from the french tambour for drum and the Latin major for bigger and more important. Both together, so the head drummer , i.e. those of the road to a induces.

The term tambourmajor is still used; in Germany, for example in bands in carnival or rifleman parade. In addition, the head of a marching band partly as Tambourmajor Korpsführer, but also as Stabführer called.