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| TYMPANON | |
| Form: Greek. | |
| A hand-drum, used more especially at the noisy revels of Dionysus and Cybele, a broad rim of wood or metal covered with skin (see cut); sometimes also set round with a concave and semicircular sound-board. | |
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