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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Thanks, David! posted by Winston Smith on February 1, 2008 at 14:27:57:
Well, apart from your mother's comments which I will agree with, one thing I've learnt from listening to a wide range of music over 40 years is that it's not safe to write off any instrument as being "minor", "ridiculous", or whatever. Put any instrument in the hands of a virtuoso with genuine musical taste and you can be surprised, humbled, and left in awe. The tambourine is no different and is capable of creating some truly amazing music given the right pair of hands and a brain behind those hands to match. D Harvey's comments are right on the ball about difficulty of technique.
There's a lot of use of the frame drum—the frame drum family includes the tambourine—in Arabic music but many of the frame drums used there do not have the jingles or miniature cymbals that the tambourine drum. Physically they tend to be very similar to the Irish bhodran with minor differences in frame construction and major differences in playing technique since the Arabic frame drums are played with the hands and the bhodran with a beater, a small double headed drum stick held in the middle.
David Aiken
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