Rattle (percussion beater)
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A rattle is a percussion beater that is attached to or enclosed by a percussion instrument so that motion of the instrument will cause the rattle to strike the instrument and create musical sound.
Ball chain surrounding the cabasa produces its sound when it is shaken
Rivets in a swish cymbal modify its sound
Tambourine jingles both sound when the tambourine is shaken and modify the sound of the hand beating the skin
Tambourine
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The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine deno
Ancient Greek red-figure pottery depicting a girl playing the tambourine. Bourgas Archaeology Museum
Woman holding a mirror and a tambourine facing a winged genie with a ribbon and a branch with leaves. Ancient Greek red-figure oinochoe, c. 320 BC, from Magna Graecia. (Notice the coloured decorative woven stripes hanging on the tambourine, which can still be seen today on the tamburello, the tambourine of Southern Italy.)
Maenad playing a tympanum. Detail from the Triumph of Dionysus, on a Roman mosaic from Tunisia (3rd century AD).