Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Sound Devices (hierarchy name)
5. sound devices (equipment)
6. [sound devices by acoustical characteristics]
7. membranophones
8. drums (membranophones)
9. struck drums
10. frame drums

Narrower term/s

• sakaras (tambourines)

Anotations

Scope note:

Small single-headed frame drums of Near Eastern origin, consisting of a shallow ring, usually of wood, covered on one side with a stretched membrane of parchment, animal skin, or plastic, usually furnished with jingling metal discs or small bells called jingles placed in slots or otherwise attached around the circumference. It is played by shaking, striking with the knuckles, or drawing the fingers across the parchment. The earlier name for this instrument, as mentioned in translations of the Bible, was "timbrel."