Author: unknown
Date: unspecified
Materials: wood, leather and metal
Dimensions: H. 6,5 x D. 19 cm
Origin: unspecified
Reference: MCHC0003
On display: Hélio Costa – Terceira Island Carnival Museum
Notes: Percussion instrument, used by the master when danças began to take place in the evening.
According to the researcher José Orlando Bretão, “the tambourine was probably introduced by Joaquim Sales Farôpa who, as far as I know, was the first author (or one of the first) to write and rehearse danças to be presented in the evening, at the ground floor of the great two-storey houses of Ramo Grande” (José Orlando Bretão, As Danças do Entrudo: Uma Festa do Povo, v. 1, Angra do Heroísmo, Direção Regional da Cultura, 1998, p. 479).
