Wilkinson, John Gardner; Birch, Samuel [Mitarb.]: The Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs: being a companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian collections (London, 1857)

TAMBOURINE AND DRUMS.

throughout the East, as well as in Europe (woodcut 13). It was
the taph of the Hebrews, the timbrel, or tabret, that Miriam, and
the women after her, took in
their hands; when they cele-
brated the deliverance of the
people " with timbrels and
with dances." It is the only-
form now used in Egypt; and
in the upper country it is intro-
duced on occasions of mourn-
ing as well as of rejoicing, with
the same rude kind of song as of
old ; but the dardboolca (wood-
cut 14), made of parchment,
strained over one end of a cone,
or a cylinder, of earthenware,
is an instrument of mirth, like
the common drum, which was also known to the ancient Egyp-
tians. This last was braced like our own, and beaten in the same

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(W. 14.)

manner with two sticks; but the hand-drum was precisely