tambourine

     

han percussion

Trivia about tambourine

  • Hey, Mr.! It's a shallow frame drum with a single head & metal discs fitted into the walls of the frame
  • The chevalier must have brought this instrument; its name is Old French for "small drum":
  • This percussion instrument with small jingling disks is often used to provide a gypsy effect in musical pieces
  • In French this instrument played by Tracy Partridge is a tambour de Basque
  • In the Byrds' "Mr. ___ Man"
  • The metal discs around the edge of this hand-held percussion instrument are called jingles
  • The timbrel mentioned in the Bible, it consists of a parchment stretched over a wooden hoop with metal jingles
  • It's the round instrument heard here
  • A wandering minstrel could make good use of this handheld percussion instrument heard here