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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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Drum of Lingshan type

Drum

Iya'lu dundun (drum)

Backstage "Tabor Theatre"

Large temple drum with original stand and drumsticks

Celestial Drummer

Drum

Drum Beats II

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

Pecten Shell Cymbals (1 Pair)

Slit gong

Drum Beats

7.9c Drum single

Drum and Wooden Beater

Drum With 2 Heads - Antique Temple Drum

Tambourine Drum

Patent model for a cylinder drum

Gong Of Metal With Its Drumstick (Ching)

Beater

Milt Jackson, 1980

Drum

Shaman's drum

A Pair Of Temple Drums "Kagura Toiko" (1 Pr.)

2p Talking Drums single

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

Bell

Othello Molineaux, 1989

Altar bell

Siamese Xylophone (Ranat Ek.)

Gourd Marimba Or Indian Xylophone

The Drummer

Conga Drum Played by Paul Hawkins

Bell Tower

Ritual Drum

Drummer

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