Tupan, davul and tabor drums are forms of traditional snare drums used during the renaissance and medieval eras. They were used in battles to signal to soldiers, and still have many traditional uses today. These drums are made of a hard wood shell, and the heads made of skins such as goat, sheep, calf, donkey, wolf or even dog skin.

-Tupan drums are traditional Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian drums played with two different sizes of mallets.
-The davul is a very old percussion instrument from Persia or Turkey used for communication of warnings and announcements.
-Tabor drums are played with one hand and still used today with tabor pipes in various pipe-and-tabor traditions of Europe.