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A traditional square tambourine, found in Portugal and elsewhere, of Moorish origin.
1999, Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Richard Trillo, World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 227:
A feature of Beira Baixa music, and found elsewhere too, is the adufe.
2005, Sergio Navarrete Pellicer, Maya Achi Marimba Music in Guatemala with CD (Audio), Temple University Press, →ISBN, page 100:
[...] we can identify the following rhythmic sesquialtera pattern in the melody played on the violin and the adufe drum, which make the connection ...
2012, Matt Dean, The Drum: A History, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 28:
The adufe is also found in Egypt. This double-headed square frame drum, which is roughly the same size as the tar, may have bells attached inside the drum for varying timbres.
1753, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Mingotiña, si está alá:
Falas como nun Cortello è ainda hà de aver un estrozo, pois sin ver que o fol è mozo, dàs nel como nun fol vello: ay Mingota eu chè aconsello, non fagas con que se atufe, librenos Dios de que bufe, por que si colle un fumeiro en boas mans està ô Pandeiro para quentarche ô adufe.
You speak as a stable, and yet there will be a wreck, because, don't seeing that the bag is young, you hit it as if it was old: oh, Mingota, I recommend that you don't anger him, God save us from him seething, because if he grabs a club the tambourine is in good hands for heating your adufe drum
Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “adufe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “adufe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
“adufe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“adufe” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
