Pandeiro in parts of Galicia and Portugal to describe the square-shaped drum, while the round drum with jingles is known as "Pandeira" in Galicia. Some of the best-known pandeiro players today are Paulinho da Costa, Nanny Assis, Airto Moreira, Marcos Suzano, Cyro Baptista, Zé Maurício, and Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro. Another notable pandeiro player was Milt Holland, a Los Angeles-based studio percussionist and drummer who travelled the world extensively to collect and study various ethnical percussion. Artists such as Stanton Moore use it non-traditionally by tuning it low to sound like a bass drum with jingles, mounting it on a stand
Music of Brazil the "berimbau", the "atabaque" and the "pandeiro". Capoeira songs may be improvised on the spot, or they may be popular songs written by older, and ancient "mestres" (teachers), and often include accounts of the history of capoeira, or the doings of great mestres. This type of music is played primarily in the Recife and Olinda regions during Carnaval. It is an Afro-Brazilian tradition. The music serves as the backdrop for parade groups that evolved out of ceremonies conducted during colonial times in honour of the Kings of Congo, who were African slaves occupying symbolic leadership positions among the slave population.