timbrel
In this context it was adopted with great vigour by those ladies of the Salvation Army unable to perform on any kind of pitched instrument
The tambourine has thus become an unwitting icon of the Temperance movement.
However, if it was ever known as the
symphonia, then this was an error. The medieval
symphonia was a wheel-bowed string instrument, known as the
vielle a rou in French, or the hurdy-gurdy in English. They are still popular in France, in Central Europe, and the Balkans... the last song of Winterreise is an eloquent testament to the simply nobility of the instrument.