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

Usage examples of tambourine.

He knew several French and English songs, and resolved to try them upon the Japanese, who must be lovers of music, since they were for ever pounding on their cymbals, tam-tams, and tambourines, and could not but appreciate European talent.

This time the performance of the minstrels had been more boisterous than before, with tambourines and drums in lieu of gittern and lute.

I would like to requisition twenty percussive instruments, such as snare drums, kettledrums, tambourines, maracas, marimbas, rattles, and gongs.

They picked up the rattles, tambourines, and maracas and were making a racket that was enough to wake the dead.

Reading him somehow suggests hearing a Bach mass rescored for two fifes, a tambourine in B, a wind machine, two tenor harps, a contrabass oboe, two banjos, eight tubas and the usual clergy and strings.

The shaman was laughing and rummaging through a large box, throwing out tambourines and banjos and other small percussive instruments.

Next came the minstrels, playing merrily on tabor, fife, sacbut, rebec, and tambourine.

Before she can ask, the man steps back to make way for a procession that suddenly divides the crowd: a naked woman, skin painted silver, face masked with a featureless white disc, goes by on a white horse, followed by a gaggle of white-robed acolytes whooping and beating on little drums and tambourines and sticks.

Their banners were torn out of their hands, their tambourines were broken, their voices were drowned, and finally they were driven back into their Mellah and shut up there, and forbidden to look upon the entry of the Sultan even from their roofs.

His eyes rested idly on a little old coloured print of a Bacchante, with flowing green scarf, shaking a tambourine at a naked Cupid, who with a baby bow and arrow in his hands, was gazing up at her.

Juts produced a tambourine and Cora had the uneasy sensation that she had clipped it.

Gypsies come to town camped in the littered squares, furred feathered and earringed, shaking tambourines and stealing things.

Two raps plus the bell rang and the rattle and tambourine played, and Nan found herself feeling very sorry for the poor, silly woman.

They accompanied on guzlas, on castanets, on tambourines, and sang the old airs, doleful and languorous, or excitable and breathiess as the flight of the earliest nomads in the beginnings of the world.

I would like to requisition twenty percussive instruments, such as snare drums, kettledrums, tambourines, maracas, marimbas, rattles, and gongs.