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Comments: Tamborine. The ancient Greek tympanon was known in Byzantium as the sstrum or plitha and in modern Greece as the defi or dakhans (Macedonia, Thrace). With or without cymbals (zilia) on its wooden frame, it gives rhythmic accompanimentto most of the melodic instruments played throughout Greece. Museum of Popular Instruments, Research Centre for Ethnomusicology. In Plaka, Athens, Greece. Official website.

Comments: Mosaic depicting street musicians, signed by Dioskourides of Samos, it was found in the so-called Villa of Cicero near the ancient city of Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum

From Smith: Timbrel, Tabret - (Heb. toph). In old English tabor was used for any drum. Tabouret and tambourine are diminutives of tabor, and denote the instrument now known as the tambourine. Tabret is a contraction of tabouret. The Hebrew toph is undoubtedly the instrument described by travellers as the duff or diff of the Arabs. It was played principally by women, (Exodus 15:20; Judges 11:34; 1 Samuel 18:6; Psalms 68:25) as an accompaniment to the song and dance. The diff of the Arabs is described by Russell as "a hoop (sometimes with pieces of brass fixed in it to make a jingling) over which a piece of parchment is stretched. It is beaten with the fingers, and is the true tympanum of the ancients." In Barbary it is called tar.

Verses:

Genesis 31:27
Exodus 15:20
Judges 11:34
1 Samuel 10:5
1 Samuel 18:6
2 Samuel 6:5
1 Chronicles 13:8
Job 21:12
Psalms 68:25
Psalms 81:2
Psalms 149:3
Psalms 150:4
Isaiah 5:12
Isaiah 24:8
Isaiah 30:32
Jeremiah 31:4

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