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TAMBOURINE (Fr. tambour de Basque; Ger. baskische Trommel, Tambourin, or Schellen-trommel)

TAMBOURINE (Fr. See also:
TAMBOUR (Fr. for " drum " )
tambour de Basque; Ger. baskische Trommel, Tambourin, or Schellen-trommel) , a popular See also:

INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument of percussion of indefinite musical See also:

pitch, used for marking the See also:

RHYTHM (Greek pvBµds, from bap, to flow)

rhythm in See also:

dance or bacchanalian See also:

MUSIC

music. The tambourine consists of a See also:

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat wooden or See also:

metal See also:

RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

ring, over one end of which is stretched a See also:

PARCHMENT

parchment or vellum See also:

head; in the circumference of the ring are fixed nine or ten metal disks or small bells which jingle as the tambourine is struck by the See also:

hand, or merely waved through the See also:

air. A tremolo effect is obtained by stroking the head with the See also:

FINGER

finger-tips. In a 14th-See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century MS. (Brit. See also:

Mus. See also:

SLOANE, SIR HANS (1660-1753)

Sloane 3983, fol. 13) a tambourine of See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance with a snare bears the inscription " Tympanum." The tambourine is of the highest antiquity, and was known at different times under the names of See also:

TIMBREL, or TABRET (the tof of the ancient Hebrews, the dell of Islam, the adufe of the Moors of Spain)

timbrel or tabret, See also:

TYMPANON, or TYMPANUM

tympanon or tympanum, and See also:

SYMPHONIA (Gr. o-vµcfrmvla)

symphonia. (K.

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