The choir went whirling by with Citharas, Rebecs, Citoles, Domras, Goules, Serpents, Crwths, Pentachords, Rebabs, Pantalons, Conches, Flageolets made of Pelicon bones, Tam-TAMS, Carillons, Xylophones, Crescents of beating bells, Mandoras, Whistling Vases of Clay, Zampognas, Zithers, Bugles, Octochords, Naccaras or Turkish castanets and Quinternas.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
Aye ask her plenty TAMS, but she ant like me."
"Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories"
Rex Beach
It will be full of other Jocks and Andrews and TAMS, on their way back to France, like him, and he will nod to some he knows as he settles down in the carriage.
"A Minstrel In France"
Harry Lauder