caisse claire

bass drum Noun. grosse caisse f (plural grosses caisses) bass drum.

A musical-notation symbol at the beginning of a music staff, a clef indicates the pitch of the notes on the staff. Clefs were originally letters, identifying letter-named pitches, that were added to one or more of the staff's lines (thus providing a "key" to their identity).

English: French military drum.

clef, (French: “key”) in musical notation, symbol placed at the beginning of the staff, determining the pitch of a particular line and thus setting a reference for, or giving a “key” to, all notes of the staff.

In music, the clef is a sign used to indicate the pitch of notes represented on the musical staff. The word clef comes from the French, meaning “key.” In music notation, the symbol is placed at the beginning of the staff, setting a reference for, or giving a “key” to, all notes of the staff.

A tambour is a frame drum without the jingles of the more common tambourine. Play this instrument simply by hitting the head with your hand or with a beater to produce a clear sound with a deep, warm tone.

Tambourines are often used with regular percussion sets. They can be mounted, for example on a stand as part of a drum kit (and played with drum sticks), or they can be held in the hand and played by tapping, hitting, or shaking the instrument. Tambourines come in many shapes with the most common being circular.

Reading Alto Clef The mnemonic device “Fat Alley Cats Eat Garbage” (F, A, C, E, G) may help you remember this order of letter names. As seen in Example 5, the center of the alto clef is indented around the C line (the middle line). For this reason it is sometimes called a “C clef.”

Clef is a French word, meaning Key. Clef is defined as a symbol placed at the commencement [beginning] of a stave [staff] which indicates the pitch of a musical note and also fixes the letter names of the lines and spaces.

What is a musical stave? In Western music, the stave is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that represent a different musical pitch. Music symbols and notes are placed on the stave based on their pitch and/or function.

Tambour (also called tambor, tamboro or tambora, written in music as tamb.), is a technique in Flamenco guitar and classical guitar that emulates the sound of a heartbeat.

drum The tambor (Spanish) or tambour (French) or tambora (Afro-Caribbean?) is an effect used in classical and flamenco guitar playing to imitate the sound of a tuned drum. (The tambora is actually a percussion instrument with a low range that makes a low deep sound--you could think of it as a bass drum.)