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A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.}}

Percussion instrument – Other names: Riq, Buben – Classification: Hand percussion – Hornbostel–Sachs classification: 112.122(+211.311, with drumhead) – (Indirectly struck idiophone, sometimes including struck membranophone) – Related instruments: Riq, Buben, Dayereh, Daf, Kanjira, Frame drum.

A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.}}

Ancient Greek red-figure pottery depicting a girl playing the tambourine. Bourgas Archaeology Museum

A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.}}

Woman holding a mirror and a tambourine facing a winged genie with a ribbon and a branch with leaves. Ancient Greek red-figure oinochoe, c. 320 BC, from Magna Graecia. (Notice the coloured decorative woven stripes hanging on the tambourine, which can still be seen today on the tamburello, the tambourine of Southern Italy.)