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    styles of body-movements and gestures‚ in the costumes worn by the performers‚ and in the shape and size of the drums used to provide rhythmic sound patterns to accompany the dancing. The drum used in Kandyan dancing is known as the Geta Bera‚ the drum in Ruhunu dancing as the "Yak Bera"‚ and drum in Sabaragamu dancing as the "Davula" (the word Bera or Bereya in Sinhale means "Drum") The Geta Bera is beaten with the hands as is also Yak Bera‚ while the Davula is played with a stick on one side

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    Abstract Long ago‚ the drum beaters community had been earning their livelihood by serving and performing their skills in various social functions like marriage‚ child birth‚ idol immersion procession‚ marriage procession‚ welcome ceremony‚ political rallies‚ and other administrative purposes. Application of modern technology in music has brought a sea change in the lifestyle of the drum beaters and thus putting their livelihood at stake. Even though there is an existence of jajamani system in our

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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 Traditionally‚ the instrument used twisted antelope hide for the strings‚ but they have been replaced by nylon fishing line.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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    constantly evolving to offer precision braking facility in modern cars. The two prime braking technologies developed over the course of time are drum brakes and disc brakes. In the following essay I am going to describe the two different types and point out the advantages and disadvantages of drum and disc brakes. Before we make a distinction between discs and drums‚ let me explain the basic working principle of any braking system installed in cars. When brakes are applied‚ vehicles come to a halt through

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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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    Shakespeare is a great playwright‚ and sonneteer‚ his work is admired by many people world wide and he proves to have been very good with his work on love in his writings. His sonnets are special‚ in that the overall perspective is not expected to be given in such a way; meaning that readers would expect that a male poet of his time would give more attention to the love of the female rather than writing 126 out of 154 sonnets for a young man more or less. For this paper I will be presenting the three

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    Supply Chain Simulation

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    customer‚ the customer makes its purchase from a competitor without any loss of future demand. The chemical is shipped in small plastic drums at a price of $1450 a piece. Demand for the chemical is highly seasonal but otherwise very stable. There are no long-run market trends‚ either upward or downward. The size of orders is very random‚ with an average size of 7 or 8 drums. Orders arrive randomly throughout each 24-hour day. It is now day 730‚ two years after Jacobs began producing and marketing the

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    Storage Systems‚ Inc.‚ sells a wide range of drums‚ bins‚ boxes‚ and other containers that are used in the chemical industry. One of the company’s products is a heavy- duty corrosion- resistant metal drum‚ called the XSX drum‚ used to store toxic wastes. Production is constrained by the capacity of an automated welding machine that is used to make precision welds. A total of 2‚000 hours of welding time are avail-able annually on the machine. Since each drum requires 0.8 hours of welding time‚ annual

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    History of Percussion

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    instruments have been used and associated with strong ceremonial‚ sacred‚ or symbolic events. For example‚ in Africa‚ drums symbolize and protect tribal royalty. The drums symbolize a family‚ sharing the same blood and feelings. The drums were are used to communicate through the villages and used as a type of language to transmit messages. In medieval and Renaissance Europe‚ the snare drum was used in the infantry to send coded instructions to the soldiers. Some of the earliest percussion instruments

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    activity served as a sort of social commentary. The Buru characters are always accompanied by musicians. There are at least three drummers and other musicians who use scrapers‚ rattles and other percussion instruments. The drums used are the funded‚ the repeater and the bass‚ the same drums that are now used by the Nyahbinghi Rastafarians. Some researchers even argue that present-day Nyahbinghi music is a fusion

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