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What is another word for tambourines?

Pronunciation: [tˈambəɹˌiːnz] (IPA)

Tambourines are percussion instruments that are commonly used in musical performances. They are often played by shaking or tapping the instrument with the hands or fingertips. There are several synonyms for tambourines, including pandeiros, panderos, and timbrels. These instruments are similar to tambourines in that they are also small, handheld percussion instruments that are played by shaking or tapping. Other synonyms for tambourines include jingles, sleigh bells, and hand cymbals. Regardless of the synonym used, tambourines and their counterparts are versatile instruments that can add unique rhythms and sounds to any musical performance.
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The secret of teaching seals to play tambourines is due to their desire to comb their fur and fan themselves!
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
Here they danced, and sang, and shook tambourines, in order to beguile the people to enter.
"A Peep Behind the Scenes"
Mrs. O. F. Walton
Some had pipes and some had lutes and some had tambourines, and all were singing as loud as they could and making as much noise as they might, and when they came into the open space hard by the fountain they paused for a while in their progress, and broke into as lively a morris-dance as ever I had seen skipped.
"The God of Love"
Justin Huntly McCarthy

Famous quotes with Tambourines

  • The capacity for self-deception, rarely acknowledged or understood by those who offer us supernatural answers to our problems, is huge: as easy as it is to make a medium’s cold-reading statements ‘fit’ our own situation and come to believe that he must have some paranormal insight, it is hardly any more difficult for a would-be psychic with an average ego, upon hearing frequently positive feedback, to believe over time that he must be blessed with a special gift. It’s harder to think you’re doing it for real when you’re tossing tambourines in the dark or have ready-made ectoplasm stuffed into your mouth or bottom.
    Derren Brown
  • Séances date back to the 1800s after three sisters by the name of Fox claimed to be able to contact the dead. They toured America with their demonstrations and attracted the rich and famous and by the end of the century séances had taken off all over the western world. Spirits were manifested, tambourines flew, ectoplasm impossibly erupted from entranced mediums. Then, after forty years of this, rather embarrassed by what they’d started, one of the sisters, Margaret Fox, confessed that they were frauds. The miracles which had started it all off had been a scam. But her confession made very little difference and spiritualism continues to appeal to many people today.
    Derren Brown
  • Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate, — and meantime it is only puss and her tail. How long before our masquerade will end its noise of tambourines, laughter, and shouting, and we shall find it was a solitary performance?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

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