tambourin

• “Tambourine" comes from MF "tambourin" -- but does not exist in that precise form in modern French, nor, apparently, in MF.”

  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]

• “The band was now composed of a set of miserable scrapers, who played in unison, and continually in the key of G sharp; amid the sounds which emanated from their instruments, the jangling of a tambourin, and the shrill notes of a fife were occasionally heard.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829

• “After the winding was over, the songs and dances began to the music of a tambourin.”

  Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist

• “Provence,' he says (ib. 148), 'is the only province in which you see with some sort of frequency the rustic assemblies roused up to cheerfulness by the fifre and the tambourin.”

  Life Of Johnson

• “Drumming and fifing being absolute essentials to every sort of Provençal festivity, a conspicuous figure always is found playing on a _tambourin_ and”

  The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals

• “The grey-bearded magistrates, in their velvet caps and robes, wearing their golden chains of office; the great log, swung to shoulder-poles and borne by leathern-jerkined henchmen; surely drummers and fifers, for such a ceremonial would have been impossibly incomplete in Provence without a _tambourin_ and _galoubet_; doubtless a brace of ceremonial trumpeters; and a seemly guard in front and rear of steel-capped and steel-jacketed halbardiers.”

  The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals

• “The drum, which is beat at their feasts, dances and games, the tambourin, and a kind of flageolet, made of cane or two pieces of soft wood hollowed out and fastened together with strips of leather.”

  Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk

• “They were taken out of the fire: a buffaloe robe held in one hand and beaten with the other, by several of the company, supplied the place of the lost drum or tambourin, and no notice was taken of the offensive conduct of the man.”

  History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.

• “The orchestra was composed of about ten men, who played on a sort of tambourin, formed of skin stretched across a hoop; and made a jingling noise with a long stick to which the hoofs of deer and goats were hung; the third instrument was a small skin bag with pebbles in it: these, with five or six young men for the vocal part, made up the band.”

  History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.

• “Provence,' he says (_ib_. 148), 'is the only province in which you see with some sort of frequency the rustic assemblies roused up to cheerfulness by the _fifre_ and the _tambourin_.”

  Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776

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