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    Steel Pan History

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    instrument originating in Trinidad‚ made out of an oil drum with one end beaten down and divided by grooves into sections to give different notes. Though steel pans (steel drums) were created on the Caribbean island of Trinidad in the 1930s‚ the steel pan history can be traced back to the enslaved Africans who were brought to the island during the 1700s. They carried with them elements of their African culture including the playing of hand drums. These drums became the main percussion instruments in the annual

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    the mystic drum

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    Africana Studies 1-1-2011 ‘The Mystic Drum’: Critical Commentary on Gabriel Okara’s Love Lyrics Chukwuma Azuonye University of Massachusetts Boston‚ chukwuma.azuonye@umb.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/africana_faculty_pubs Part of the African Languages and Societies Commons‚ Comparative Literature Commons‚ and the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Azuonye‚ Chukwuma‚ "‘The Mystic Drum’: Critical Commentary on Gabriel Okara’s

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    The Baba Maal

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    djembe drums with three rattles on each drum‚ a dundunba drum (largest)‚ a sangban drum (medium)‚ a kenkeni drum (smallest)‚ and a male lead vocalist (Baaba Maal). The kora is in the chordophone family and is a 21 string harp lute or bridge harp. The neck of the instrument is attached to a large resonating gourd with cowhide stretched over it. Traditionally‚ the instrument used twisted antelope hide for the strings‚ but they have been replaced by nylon fishing line. The djembe and the dunun drums are

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    instruments DRUM SET The first drum sets were put together in the late 1800s sometime after the invention of the bass drum pedal. This invention made it possible for one person to play several percussion instruments (snare drum‚ bass drum‚ and cymbals) at one time Bass Drum This drum is the largest member of the set and is played by using a foot pedal attached to a beater which then strikes the drum head. This drum produces a low deep sound. Snare Drum This shallow‚ cylindrical drum produces

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    Biovail Case Study

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    Q1. |CALCULATION FOR NO DRUMS REQUIRED | |ONE GALLON= |3785.4CC | |ONE DRUM CAPACITY =64 GALON IN CC |242265.6 | |SALE PRICE OF ONE TABLET=

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    1. The given margins of the two products as indicated in the reports submitted by the accounting department for the drums and mountain bike frames should not be used in the decision of which product to make. This is due to the following reasons: a. The product margins are lower than they should be‚ simply due to the fact of the presence of allocated common fixed costs that happen to be irrelevant in making this decision. b. Moreover‚ when the fixed costs are taken out of the equation‚ the profitability

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    Caribbean Music

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    This is demonstrated in video ML 3475 .J88 1995 Vol. 4 : The Caribbean. One of the most prominent instruments within Caribbean music is the large array of drums‚ including Steel‚ Conga‚ Timbales and Bongo Drums. All these types of drums distribute very different kinds of sounds. The steel pan‚ also known as a steel drum‚ is made from oil drums heated and hammered into an instrument with multiple pitches played with

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    connected with friends and took breaks‚ but I did not drum‚ dance‚ or engage in any of the myriad of crafts I’ve always loved dabbling in. At some point‚ things began to get a wee bit easier. I realized that while I wasn’t "ready‚" I still had to find a way to show up again for my creative self to stay sane. So when the kiddo was about six months old‚ I finally started going to drum circles again and playing my drum at home. Returning to my beloved drum felt like a huge effort at first‚ but overall the

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    Native American Instruments

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    Native American Instruments Drums and rattles are the most common instruments used in Native American music. Other percussion instruments include rasps‚ bells (usually attached to clothing)‚ and clap-sticks. Melodic instruments include flutes‚ whistles‚ and stringed instruments. The Apache violin is a single-string instrument made from the stalk of the agave plant‚ and is indigenous to the Apache people. The Yaqui violin‚ on the other hand‚ is closely modeled upon European instruments played at

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    indian tribal music

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    accompanied by drum-beats‚ with no presence of specific melody. During an ongoing performance‚ there exists no prolonged synth sound in such music. Due to the Indian variation being of much rugged origin‚ the instruments utilised are not as refined as the ones used in classical music. Tribal musical instruments are generally manufactured by the musicians themselves‚ making use of materials like coconut shells‚ animal skin‚ etc. The musical beats are based on sophisticated and synchronised drum patterns

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