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Love to Hear Percussion

Smithsonian Music

The Smithsonian celebrates both common and unusual percussion instruments along with the musicians who keep the beat.

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Remove Topic: Anthropology

Drum of Lingshan type

Drum

Iya'lu dundun (drum)

Backstage "Tabor Theatre"

E-mu SP-12 Drum Machine

Arrangement for Drums

Large temple drum with original stand and drumsticks

Art Blakey

Maracas

Hopi Musician Playing Drum

Buddy Rich

Celestial Drummer

Drum

Drum Beats II

Girl with Tambourine

Folio from a Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz (d.1390); recto: Prince and Princess listen to musicians; verso: text

Vibraphone, used by Lionel Hampton

Five musicians playing drums

Poster, NASA, Manned Flight Awareness

Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d.1209); verso: illustration: Nufal champions Majnun's cause in battle; recto: text

Slit gong

Drum Beats

7.9c Drum single

Patent model for a cylinder drum

Custom snare drum owned by Will Calhoun

Milt Jackson, 1980

Drum

Shaman's drum

Max Roach

2p Talking Drums single

Wolverine Blues; Drum Improvisation

Bell (bo) with birds and dragons; from a set of four

Bell

Art Blakey

Othello Molineaux, 1989

Altar bell

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