{"id":36,"date":"2013-03-20T09:37:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T08:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/95.141.36.44\/apache2-default\/queenmuseum\/?p=36"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:45:02","slug":"freddie-1977-original-tambourine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Freddie 1977 Original Tambourine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This piece was part of &#8220;Keep On Rockin&#8217; &#8212; the 2019 Exhibition.&#8221; Below are photographs from the exhibition display, alongside the original write-up.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:1.5em 0;text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SAM_3672-scaled-1380x920.jpg\" alt=\"Freddie Mercury&#39;s 1977 tambourine on display with a live photo and a promotional shot of Freddie\"\/><\/figure>\n<h3>Freddie&#8217;s Tambourine 1977<\/h3>\n<p>An original tambourine used by Freddie Mercury on the 1977 US tour, at the Portland, Oregon show. Peter Hince &#8212; Queen&#8217;s longtime road crew member and equipment tech &#8212; prepared these carefully to Freddie&#8217;s own instructions, since Freddie would often fling the tambourine out into the crowd after the songs that called for it.<\/p><div class=\"2416a19e08873d0076105f82e7f970da\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- quadrato -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block;text-align:center;margin:0 auto;max-width:100%\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6452889443\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>It didn&#8217;t always survive the throw intact. Only a handful of examples are known to have made it back in good condition &#8212; this one among them, shown here alongside a live shot of Freddie mid-performance with a matching tambourine in hand, and a promotional photo from the same period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:2em;\"><em>This piece is part of &#8220;Keep On Rockin&#8217; &#8212; the 2019 Exhibition.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/?page_id=5013\">See the full exhibition here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"2416a19e08873d0076105f82e7f970da\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- stretto -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block;text-align:center;margin:0 auto;max-width:100%\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5886106757\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece was part of &#8220;Keep On Rockin&#8217; &#8212; the 2019 Exhibition.&#8221; Below are photographs from the exhibition display, alongside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[121,137,138,139],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-queen-memorabilia","category-tour","tag-keep-on-rockin-exhibition-2020","tag-peter-hince","tag-portland-oregon-1977","tag-queen-1977-tour"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}