Merritt's second record, Tambourine, was nominated for a Country Album of the Year Grammy in 2004.

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"She is good with a tambourine but you can't hide behind a tambourine, " he laughs.

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He spoke so loud we jumped, and, as we did, he banged and clicked his tambourine.

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But it was so odd, hearing these things from his white-outlined mouth, to the accompaniment of his tambourine.

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Onstage, he was spending less time exerting himself on the horn and more time resting on a stool and banging on a tambourine.

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Khedeyir Abbas, puts his tambourine in a gym bag.

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And at the time of the Tambourine tour...

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Mother muttered as he shook his tambourine.

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Placed beneath the cinema stage are more than 900 pipes, similar to those found on a church organ, the drums and the electronics required to activate and play connected instruments, such as violins, trumpets, flutes and a tambourine.

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And I started playing the 12-string guitar after really hearing Pete Seeger play and recording things like "Tambourine Man" with Jim McGuinn(ph), Roger McGuinn(ph), and so this guitar - I'm so glad you asked about this guitar because this is patterned after a D-40, a Martin D-35 that I played for years, and it's my signature Judy Collins Martin guitar.

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