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What is a percussion instrument? A percussion instrument is any musical instrument that’s played by being struck or scraped – that could be by a beater like a drum stick, by the player’s hand, or by ...

A man built an improvised high-powered microscope using an old glue stick. He created the portable optical instrument with ...

Renowned for his mastery and pioneering work on a uniquely American instrument, The Chapman Stick®, Kollwitz is set to ...

Based on the August Wilson play about the complex weight of Black lineage, Malcolm Washington's feature-length directorial ...

A player will manipulate the pitch of the drum by stretching or squeezing the strings of the drum The talking drum is a West African instrument ... and with a beater-stick. It is often played ...

In a 1995 interview, I asked Milton Friedman whether "it would be preferable to abolish the Fed entirely and just have ...

Lightweight splitting axes will turn smaller logs into kindling, while large, ten-pound mauls are used for breaking up larger ...

If the negotiators can get their act together, though, there is a significant win to be had. Paying for poor countries to go ...

It works consistently, it makes the instrument stable “What we have is a process that ... And that’s what I want: it’s not a ...

Beat’s seemingly infinite universe of sound, and hearing all the tones, colors and textures each musician coaxed from his ...

Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they ... The bow is made from a horse hair and a stick of wood, and is usually around 75cm long. 'Rosin' is created from liquid ...