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Moroccans took to the streets to celebrate and local media have shown videos of happy fans driving through Tangier waving the national flag, banging tambourines and honking their horns.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Available are 90 guitars, 62 keyboards, 24 bass guitars, 15 maracas, five ukeleles, two tambourines and a couple of cowbells.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2023

So he kept his promise: “We went to music class, and we banged tambourines for like an hour.”

From New York Times • May 15, 2023

Shrill whistles mixed with drums, tambourines and the clacking of spoons on pots as public employees shut down streets in Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan, on Friday to demand better pay and pensions.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022

They sang at the top of their lungs, and swayed back and forth and cried and moaned and beat on tambourines and chanted.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey