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Best Recording of Solo Tambourine

I seek the best, most accurate and most realistic recording of a solo tambourine that anyone is aware of. Please give ordering details (Disc title and label, artists, and disc serial or product #'s) Out of print discs are not too helpful, as I intend to order the suggested discs from Amazon or Arkiv Musik. Thanks, 'Goners!
winstonsmith
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pawlowski6132
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I guess I don't understand why someone would want the definititive tamborine recording. That's VERY unusual in case that's not obvious to you. You might want to take an extra ten seconds and explain why. It makes your post much more interesting to the reader.
jdombrow
371 posts
 
Try some albums by "The Subdudes". They used a tambourine instead of drum kit for most of their recordings - quite a novel approach. Not the hollow ring type of tambourine, but a large one with a skin or head stretched over it, and often played with a mallet or drum stick.
honest1
586 posts
 
Relax, it is a rather unusual request. I can understand why he thought it might be a joke.
I don't think it's a joke, though. If you really love tambourine, you might consider some middle eastern music. I can't think of any particular recording that features one off hand, but my eyes were opened to the possibilities fo this as a real instrument (as opposed to the thing Susan Dey banged on her thigh while singing Partridge Family songs)last summer when I heard someone playing one in person. She had a wide variety of techniques for striking and muting the frame and bangles to produce intricate rhyhtms. In Arabic music, the tambourine is called a Riq. If I come up with any particular recordings, I'll post.
slothman
311 posts
 
"I've got a fever. And the only prescription is more...tambourine."
uru975
684 posts
 
Is this another case of Hey Mr. Tamborine Man play a song for me?
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