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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
• PITCH, MUSICAL

pitch, used for marking the See also:

• RHYTHM (Greek pvBµds, from bap, to flow)

rhythm in See also:

• DANCE
• DANCE (Fr. danse; of obscure origin, connected with Old High Ger. danson, to stretch)

dance or bacchanalian See also:

• MUSIC

music . The See also:

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

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
• METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)

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 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

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
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, or merely waved through the See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

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

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 .