Tiompan: Ireland musical instrument
The tiompan was a stringed musical instrument that is used by the Gaelic musicians of Ireland and Scotland and perhaps therefore the Isle ...
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The tiompan was a stringed musical instrument
that is used by the Gaelic musicians of Ireland and Scotland and perhaps
therefore the Isle of Man.
The timpan was of both feminine and masculine
gender in classical Irish. The name is
theorized from the Latin word, ‘tympanum’ meaning tambourine or kettle drum and
‘timpan’ does seem to be used in certain ancient text to define a drum.
source of picture: theartofirishmusic.wee..
The
adjective timpanach means a performer on the musical instrument but it also
recorded in one instance in the Dánta Grádha as describing a cruit.
The feminine noun timpancht means the art of
practice of playing the musical instrument.
In the contemporary Irish traditional music, the
name of the instrument was used by the late Derek bell, after Galpin’S theory,
to refer to the hammered dulcimer instrument
