drumstick

musical instrument

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In percussion instrument: Membranophones
…of their being played with drumsticks, a technique adopted from Asia. The small rope-strung cylinder drum known as the tabor entered western Europe during the Crusades; the earliest known pictorial evidence is a 12th-century English illumination showing a jongleur disguised as a bear striking a barrel drum suspended from his…
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