tambourine

• Later that night, I handed him some maracas and a tambourine -- he didn't get paid, but he got to stand onstage and 'be in the band.' —  The Real Frank Zappa Book
• 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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