Lexicographical Neighbors of Tambouras
Literary usage of Tambouras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essentials in Music History by Thomas Tapper, Percy Goetschius (1914)
"... 12 Harp-Player 13 Small Egyptian Harp 13 Double-Pipe, Rhythmical Accompaniment
of the Hands, the Harp, and Two tambouras 13 Harp of Thirteen Strings 14 ..."
2. The Heart of Music: The Story of the Violin by Anna Alice Chapin (1906)
"... and the other Oriental lutes and tambouras. It would be a curious example in
evolution if it were true that the crwth developed backward, as it were, ..."
3. The Heart of Music: The Story of the Violin by Anna Alice Chapin (1906)
"... and the other Oriental lutes and tambouras. It would be a curious example in
evolution if it were true that the crwth developed backward, as it were, ..."
4. The Heart of Music: The Story of the Violin by Anna Alice Chapin (1906)
"The neck was always very long and slender and the number of strings three, two,
or even one. Some of the Egyptian tambouras, or lutes, had great numbers ..."
5. The Art of Music: A Comprehensive Library of Information for Music Lovers by Daniel Gregory Mason (1915)
"We find represented, for example, such combinations as harp, two tambouras and
double-pipe, and lyre, harp, double-pipe and chorus. ..."
6. Up the Niger by Augustus Ferryman Mockler-Ferryman, Charles Russell Day (1892)
"... within the last century, by Mahommedans, who almost always carry small tambouras
or lutes of three or four strings wherever they go. ..."
7. Up the Niger by Augustus Ferryman Mockler-Ferryman, Charles Russell Day (1892)
"... within the last century, by Mahommedans, who almost always carry small tambouras
or lutes of three or four strings wherever they go. ..."
8. Anthropological Studies by Anne Walbank Buckland (1891)
"... lyres, tambouras resembling guitars, instruments triangular, oblong and square,
with or without stands, but all apparently played with the hand only. ..."
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