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n. A percussion instrument consisting of a small drumhead with jingling disks fitted into the rim, usually played by shaking and striking with the hand.

n. A similar instrument without a drumhead.

n. A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is usually held in the hand and shaken rhythmically.

n. A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.

n. A South American wild dove (Tympanistria tympanistria), mostly white, with black-tiped wings and tail. Its resonant note is said to be ventriloquous.

n. A parchment-covered racket, resembling a battledore, with which the ball is thrown in the game of tamburello (which see).

n. A small drum formed of a ring or hoop of wood or sometimes of metal, over which is stretched a single head of parchment.

n. A long narrow drum or tabor used in Provence; also, a bottle-shaped drum used in Egypt.

n. A Provençal dance originally executed to the sound of tabor and pipe, with or without singing.

n. Music for such a dance, in duple rhythm and quick tempo, and usually accompanied by a drone bass of a single tone, as the tonic or the dominant, as if played by rubbing the finger across a tambourine.

n. A remarkable pigeon of Africa, Tympanistria bicolor. See cut under Tympanistria.

n. a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides

"In the hands of a Jewish woman, the tambourine is a symbol of passage, hope, and achievement."

tympan    membranophone    drum   

tambourinist   

timbrel    drum    tympanum   

Aileen    Amin    Arleen    Augustin    Bean    Cathleen    Celine    Charlene    Christine    Clymene   

flageolet    hautboy    cittern    tabor    violoncello    tabour    trombone    mandolin    harpsichord    castanet