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18-inch tambourine.
Technical description: Wooden frame with wooden thumb-hole bush; skin head lapped to iron wire flesh hoop; counter-hoop of ferrous metal strip, lap jointed. Tensioning by 8 rods with gilded wing-nuts, rods forming hooks over counter-hoop. 7 pairs of gilded double jingles, diameter 50, with high central dome.
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Circa 1770 - c1810 - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Great Britain - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:211.311-92 Single-skin frame drums without handle with membrane lapped onto a hoop
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:211.311-92 Single-skin frame drums without handle with membrane lapped onto a hoop
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16720