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A more virtuosic method of rolling involves a player rubbing his moistened thumb<br />

around the rim of the tambourine’s head. This friction roll allows for a softer sounding roll,<br />

but one more technically challenging to execute consistently. Extended durations of the<br />

thumb roll are also difficult to sustain since the player must simultaneously press into the head<br />

of the instrument while circling around the tambourine’s rim to generate sound from the metal<br />

jingles. Figure 35 from Stravinsky’s The Firebird (1910) demonstrates the friction roll.<br />

Figure 35. The Firebird by Stravinsky. Reprinted from Edgar Brand Gangware, Jr., “The<br />

History and Use of Percussion Instruments in Orchestration,” Ph.D. diss., (Northwestern<br />

University, 1962), 214<br />

Stravinsky employs both the standard roll and the friction roll in Figure 36 from Petrouchka<br />

(“Gypsies and a Rake Vendor”).<br />

Figure 36. Petrouchka by Stravinsky. Reproduced by Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd. Reprinted<br />

from James Blades, Percussion Instruments and Their History, (London: Faber and Faber<br />

Limited, 1984), 386<br />

66

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