What do you call a headless tambourine?

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My drum teacher awhile back told me there is another name for a headless tambourine, since a headless 'tambourine' isn't actually a 'tambourine' (the word tambourine means little drum or something like that).

Anyone know what the heck I'm talking about? It's driving me crazy!
 
Nah, there's some specific one word name that I guess mainly classical players use. . .
 
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Lifeless junk. I have never heard a headless tambo that really sounded good.
 
I hope you appreciate how many jokes could actually go here. :rolleyes:

Seriously - I just always knew tambourines and headless tambourines.
 
I could be wrong, but I always thought that a headless tamborine was the "official" tamborine, while headed models were called tamborims. Double check on that though.
 
It's all a tambourine to me. That's the way they are ALL marketed. If you go into a drum shop and ask for a Jingle Ring, they'd probably think it was something else.

Personally, this isn't a question of semantics that keeps me up at night. :rolleyes:
 
I hear you guys, but you know when there's a particular word (or song, or whatever) stuck in your head that you just can't quite remember? Anyway, it's just driving me crazy! Maybe he made it up, haha!
 
The Tambourine or Marine (commonly called Tambo) is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic with pairs of small metal ingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all. - Wikipedia



 
TheCircus said:
I could be wrong, but I always thought that a headless tamborine was the "official" tamborine, while headed models were called tamborims. Double check on that though.
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A tamborim is a small Brazilian frame drum, about 6" in diameter, with a head but no jingles. It's normally played with either a stick or a bundle of rods.

 
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With a head = That thing with jingles that the geeky classical player is shaking
without = that thing the drunk female singer is shaking out of tempo while singing out of key
 
what ya call a dog w no legs.
nuthin..cause he's not coming anyway
 
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