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In this the strings are abetted by a tambourine, a triangle, and a gong.— Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
"I'll play an accompaniment on the tambourine, and you can flap your sole.— Just Patty
Tests of strength and endurance occur between the men of the tribe; and visits are paid to the various settlements, during the long winter nights; and songs and choruses are sung, accompanied by a kind of tambourine which is made from the bladder of a walrus or seal, and stretched across the antlers of a reindeer The Esquimos are a very superstitious people.— A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
Now although fond of music I have never been able to learn any instrument save the tambourine--my highest success otherwise has been to finger out "God save the Queen" and "We won't go home till morning" on the ocarina--and to this day a person able to play the piano or the fiddle seems possessed of an uncanny gift; but in that remote period of my fresh rescue from the gutter, an executant appeared something superhuman.— The Belovéd Vagabond

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