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Videos
Frame drumming techniques, as demonstrated by musician Tom Teasley.
Video: Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Images
Flemish rommelpot friction drum; in the Musical Instruments Museum, Brussels.
Courtesy of the Musée Instrumental, IV Department of the MRAH; © IRPA-KIK, Brussels
Egyptian ivory clappers, c. 2000 bc;...
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum, London
Emerald Polyphon music box with 22-inch- (56-cm-) diameter disc and 16 bells, from...
Courtesy of the Musical Wonder House, Wiscasset, Maine
Bianqing, Chinese stone chimes.
Courtesy of the Chinese Classical Music Association, Taipei, Taiwan
Musician playing a changgo in a traditional Korean ensemble.
Korea Britannica Corp.
African log amadinda, a type of xylophone; property of the Uganda Museum,...
Hillegeist/Kubik
Lamellaphone with bamboo tongues, from central Africa; in the James Blades Collection.
Reid Music Library, The University of Edinburgh, gift of James Blades
Reconstructed Mayan fresco from Bonampak in what is now Chiapas state, Mexico, original...
Ygunza/FPG
Some of the percussion instruments of the Western orchestra (clockwise, from top):...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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