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  • noun A type of hand-held frame drum with a round wooden frame and six pairs of metal discs fit along the sides, and an animal skin or nylon head; similar to a tambourine but with head tension that can be tuned and crisper, drier, and less sustained jingles, used in a number of Brazilian music forms.
  • noun A square double skinned frame drum, often with a bell inside, used in medieval Spanish/Moorish music.

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Examples

  • Like the track "Quero Bater No Pandeiro" from DJ Tudo: It's built around the nonstop groove created by the traditional, one-sided tambourine-like hand drum called pandeiro.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Like the track "Quero Bater No Pandeiro" from DJ Tudo: It's built around the nonstop groove created by the traditional, one-sided tambourine-like hand drum called pandeiro.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Por ejemplo, la canción "Quero Bater No Pandeiro" de DJ Tudo: Esta construída sobre una base de instrumentos tradicionales, como el pandeiro.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Por ejemplo, la canción "Quero Bater No Pandeiro" de DJ Tudo: Esta construída sobre una base de instrumentos tradicionales, como el pandeiro.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Feel the energy of samba and hear great songs which lift the spirits and warm on even the coldest night with the sound of mandolin, seven string guitar, tan-tan pandeiro, and tamborim from acoustic samba set Vendendo Peixe - pronounced ven/den/doo p/shee - meaning selling fish, an expression which translates as "showing you what I've got" or "setting out the stall".

    getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed 2009

  • Someone would rather put Brazil in a single book ... and throw it out with its nearly 190 million brasileiros tocadores de pandeiro.

    Home 2009

  • Someone would rather put Brazil in a single book ... and throw it out with its nearly 190 million brasileiros tocadores de pandeiro.

    Home 2009

  • Claudionor, Jorginho do Pandeiro (Jorge José da Silva) (pandeiro)

    Loronix 2009

  • GFB started out as a trio in 2003 with members Brian Moran (seven-string guitar), Zack Pitt-Smith (flute, clarinet and saxophone) and Ami Molinelli (pandeiro and other percussion), and evolved into a quartet when Jesse Appelman (mandolin) joined the lineup in 2006.

    Mandolin Cafe News 2008

  • Feiner released his first recording as a pandeiro player, Pandeiro Jazz, in 2006, which received worldwide attention for its innovative new sound.

    Dancetracks Digital: New Downloads 2008

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