Mr. Bratke has fleshed out the suite with interludes in which the percussionists elaborate on the rhythms underlying each of Milhaud's sketches, using shakers, cowbells, tambourines, timbales, triangles and whistles.
The audience typically stands up when the wedge is hit, and this round also sees them use tambourines and other noisemakers.
"We tried using hand claps and tambourines, but the sound wasn't quite 'right', so we ended up using the smashing plates."
Women always performed together using tambourines.
Also of note later in the century was Rodrígues de Hita (c.1724-87) who used guitars, mandolins, tambourines, and castanets and incorporated spectacular dancing into his opera Las labradoras de Murcia (1769).
Band members Arturo Meza and Jesse "O'Jay" Martinez utilized percussion instruments such as congas for "No Me Queda Más", while Freddie Corea and Don Shelton used tambourines.
Players use roundish tambourines during actions and they serve with oval tambourines.
They used tambourines, and it sounded no better.