By the late 20th century, many North American Indians used sections of plastic pipe as drum frames.
Leo Abrahams – guitars, bass guitar, Dubreq Stylophone, programming, co-production David Byrne – vocals, rhythm guitar, production, composition Brian Eno – backing vocals, organ solo, Omnichord piano, keyboards, programming, production, composition Steve Jones – delay guitar Mauro Refosco – bongo, conga, tambourine Seb Rochford – live drums Robert Wyatt – frame drum solo.
A load cell (LC) was used to measure forces on the drum mounting frame and enable monitoring of bulk powder motion; SVS is a dynamic light scattering technique particularly suited for studying dynamics in dense, non-ergodic granular systems.
Among the selections for the concert program are "Pizzica Taranta," a healing trance dance said to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula; a medieval prayer from the island of Sardinia, and "Tammorriata," an improvisation of singing and drumming on a large frame drum that is usually performed in ritual honoring the Black Madonna.
Temple drums were of considerable proportions: huge frame drums existed from the 3rd millennium on in Mesopotamia, and the waist-high lilissu had a goblet form a bowl on a stand.
Frame drums and cylindrical drums of various depths were immensely important in all genres of music.
The designation tambourine refers specifically to the European frame drum; however, the term is often extended to include all related frame drums, such as those of the Arabic countries, and sometimes those probably unrelated, such as the shaman's drums of Central Asia, North America, and the Arctic.
In addition, children will play instruments like the dumbek, frame drum and tabla.
Songs were generally accompanied by the lute (ʿūd), the frame drum (duff), or the percussion stick (qaḍīb).
Alessandra Belloni and Glen Velez are two virtuosos of the frame drum, a family of instruments that includes the tambourine.
