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carved into a barrel shape like Japanese byou-daiko drums, or made like a wine barrel from staves of wood glued together or bound with metal strips, as in conga and bongo drums. Barrel drums can have two heads or a single head, and are played with hands or beaters. Conga The conga, or tumbadora (25–30 cm/10–15 in ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

A musical ensemble is a group of two or more musicians who have come together to play music. In theory, an ensemble could contain any number of instruments in any combination, but in practice, certain combinations just don’t work very well, either for musical reasons or because of the sheer practicality of getting particular instruments and players ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

Bass Drum The dominant feature of every military band is its big bass drum. Throughout the history of percussion instruments, this drum has been the mainstay of time-keeping, whether it is used for a marching army or in a late-twentieth century heavy metal band. Early versions of the bass drum (it was certainly known in Asia around 3500 BC) ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

Steel pans or steel drums are a Caribbean instrument, originally made from oil drums beaten into shape and tuned. They originate from Port of Spain, Trinidad. The Origins of Steel Pans In the late 1930s, local people took to playing discarded metal objects like food tins and engine parts at carnivals and other celebrations, after the British ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

played in the orchestra, and in the drum kit. Percussion instruments have also been developed through local ingenuity – one good example being the Caribbean steel pans. Instruments | Conga & Bongo | Percussion ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

named Chris Hillman (born 4 December 1944) and, confident of his abilities, inserted him on bass even though he had never played the instrument. The same applied to conga player Michael Clarke (1946–93), who filled the other spot even though he did not really know how to play the drums – his facial similarity to The Rolling Stones’ Brian ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley

guitar, tres (a six- or nine-string guitar), clave (the two sticks that are struck together, playing the signature rhythm), bongos and bass. Later, trumpet, piano and conga were added. The lead vocals, of course, went to the sonero, who improvizes. Brazilian Bossa Nova In Brazil, local rhythms captured the international spotlight in the ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

Latin jazz, a term Bauzá reportedly hated. Still, Gillespie would often recall that night as one that changed his life. The trumpet virtuoso was so taken with the conga, bongos, and ‘clave’ rhythms that he immediately incorporated them into his own group. In January 1946, the influential American pianist/bandleader Stan Kenton was awestruck when he heard ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

Latin pop has been around for as long as Latin music itself. As far back as the 1920s, Mexico, Argentina and Spain were veritable fountains of popular music, which they exported to all Spanish-speaking nations. An international audience was found in the United States, along with the steady influx of Latino immigrants in the late twentieth century. ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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