The string drum goes by many names according to the region of Europe. Other names include:
Choron or Corun in the Middle Ages, Chicotén or Salterio in Aragon (Spain); Ttun ttun or Sokazko Ttunttuna in the Basque Country (north Spain/France); Tamborin in Gascony (France).
There are also variations in the instruments according to the region.
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Laruns, France
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how to make
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1410 Central Bohemia, Czech Republic
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15th/16th century Galicia, Spain |
angels playing string drum and viol |
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1466-87 Spain |
1489 Rome, Italy; fresco by Filippino Lippi |
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ceiling fresco in San Salvatore Monastery, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy |
1515 Lisbon, Portugal |
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c. 1515 Lisbon, Portugal: Assumption of the Virgin, painting, altarpiece in Convento da Madre de Deus |
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,The instrument was well known in Béarn in the 16th century.
In 1527 King Henri II d'Albret condemned by letters patent the "tambourines" which disturb the tranquility of religious buildings.
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1730 France |
18th c toile fabric, France |
18th century France |
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Victorian |
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more French string drums here and here |
1975 CD cover, France |
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20th century, Basque, painting [detail] |
20th century, Basque, playing for dancing |
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2010 procession BaztanValley, Navarre, Basque country |
memorial on wall in Aragaon, Spain |
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2012 France |
2012 France |
2012 Basque country, Spain |
21st century Basque country
string drum with pipe and tabor |
2014 string drum Catalonia, Spain |
21st century Pau, France |
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2015 Toulouse, France |
Salamanca, Spain |
2016 flabuta and tom tom, Gascony, France
Par Unuaiga — Travail personnel, CC BY-SA 4.0 |
2019 Aragon, Spain |
Aragon, Spain, religious procession |
2021 chiflo and string drum
played in cathedral celebration
Jaca, Aragon, Spain |
Firmin Garaikoetxea, Spain |
21st century in concert |
chicotén, Aragon, Spain |
21st century Spain |
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2022 Poul Høxbro Denmark |
2022 Gabriele Bultmann playing string drum reconstructed from a fresco near Salamanca, Spain |
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2021 string drum with Txirula and orchestra, Basque country |
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