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tambourine

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Summary

tambourine is a type of musical instrument[1]. tambourine draws 4,147 Wikipedia views per month (type of musical instrument category, ranking #62 of 399).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: unpitched percussion instrument[3], single-skin frame drums without handle[4]
  • Commons category: Tambourines[5]
  • Said to be the same as: bubon[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Tambourines[7]
  • Commons gallery: Tambourine[8]
  • Described by source: Riemann's Music Dictionary[9], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], The New Student's Reference Work[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[14]
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 112.1[15], 211.311[16]
  • Different from: tambori[17]

Why It Matters

tambourine has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] tambourine is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . omeka1.grinnell.edu. omeka1.grinnell.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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