Instead, as a percussionist, she is adept at playing an array of instruments, even though her primary one is the timpani.Drums, cymbals, xylophone, vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, tambourine ...

Originally the tambourine was devised as a single-headed wooden drum with slots cut out from the shell to accommodate small pairs of cymbals called ‘zills’ (also referred to as jingles). These classic ...

ISO's June 13 and 14, 2025 program opened with Maurice Ravel's "Alborada del gracioso (The Jester's Aubade)," the fourth of ...

They demonstrate how a variety of unpitched percussion instruments work including the bass drum, snare drum, suspended cymbals, crash cymbals, the tambourine, triangle, and more.

These tambourines really jingle and jangle! ... While the plates dried, we made our “zils”—the small cymbals that jingle on a tambourine. To string our shells and buttons together, ...