Music and rhythm as we know it has been around for about 60 000 years, since the onset of human intentionality. The first musical instruments besides the voice and clapping of hands were surprisingly bone flutes. Just when you thought there would have been tambourines, or even simple drums, the prehistoric humans played bone flutes! I'm not really interested in flutes, so proceeding with the tambourine. The tambourine consists of a frame, indirectly struck idiophone and sometimes including a struck membranophone. Or a tambo with zils and a drumhead. The tambo can be traced back to most ancient civilizations and was assosiated with joy, dancing, rejoicing, victory, and times of happieness and gladness. During the 13th century the tambo was brought to Europe, and was mainly played by women.
A good friend asked me once: where do you want to go today? This question has stuck with me ever since. Today I want to go and play the tambourine.
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