The big black snake promptly flares its hood and snaps the embroidered beige skull cap off the charmer's head, as the flute-like instrument flutters in the background, and a goat-skin hand-drum pounds...pam,pam,pam-pam-pam. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)
He came on flourishing a red electric guitar, surrounded by a six-piece band matching guitars, percussion and zabumba hand-drum against fiddle and accordion, and literally whooping his way through Fé Na Festa, the jaunty, upbeat title track of his next album. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Bible mentions dozens of musical instruments of the various types; but only one percussion instrument is named — the tof, or hand-drum — even though other kinds of drum were known elsewhere in the biblical world. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It was carried by a small boy, accompanied by the mayor, the priest, and a three-piece town band of trumpet, clarinet and gourd hand-drum. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)
The references to musical ensembles in several other psalms (Pss 81: 2; 149: 3; 150: 4) can be interpreted, because they include the hand-drum, as including female instrumentalists in cultic musical performance. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This evidence, along with cross-cultural materials as well as a reference to the Canaanite goddess Anath with a hand-drum, suggests that the playing of these percussion instruments was a specifically female role in the ancient Mediterranean world. ❋ Unknown (2009)
All the sounds are triggerable in MIDI, so I can use a keyboard instead of having to figure out which note is which on the hand-drum simulator layout. ❋ Badger (2003)
White Crow's small hand-drum began to pound more rapidly, like the noise of a sudden downpour. ❋ Moorcock, Michael, 1939- (2003)
She did not carry a harp at all, only a pair of bones and a small hand-drum, the only things a musician as poor as she would be able to afford. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1995)
Her harps sat in one corner, out of the way, and a hand-drum hung on the wall above them. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1995)
Tarma grinned crookedly, and went to fetch the battered little hand-drum she used on those rare occasions when she chanted-you couldn't call it singing anymore-one of the Shin'a'in history-songs. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1989)
Diamond-Strong Tastes all have three faces, red, white and black, and six arms, holding in their right hands fire arrows, a diamond-strong hook and a hand-drum replete with its sound, and in their left a bow, a diamond-strong lasso and a nine-faceted jewel. ❋ SDe-khri 'Jam-dbyangs Thub-bstan Nyi-ma (1985)
She has eight arms, in the right hands of which she holds a cleaver, a hook, a hand-drum replete with its sound, and a garland of counters. ❋ Pan-chen DPal-ldan Ye-shes (1985)
Of my four red hands, in the first is fire arrows, in the second a diamond-strong hook, in the third a damaru hand-drum replete with its sound, and in the fourth a hammer. ❋ Thu'u-bkwan Blo-bzang Chos-kyi Nyi-ma (1985)
Under my white left leg is a white Rudra the Forceful, with one face, three eyes and four arms, holding in his hands a trident and hand-drum, a skullcup and symbolic "couch-leg" staff. ❋ Thu'u-bkwan Blo-bzang Chos-kyi Nyi-ma (1985)
