drumstick

musical instrument

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A drumstick is a stick used for beating a drum. It is also a culinary term referring to the segment of a fowl's leg between the thigh and the tarsus. The word "drumstick" was first used in 1589.1

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percussion instrument
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…of their being played with drumsticks, a technique adopted from Asia. The small rope-strung cylinder drum known as the tabor entered western Europe during the Crusades; the earliest known pictorial evidence is a 12th-century English illumination showing a jongleur disguised as a bear striking a barrel drum suspended from his…
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…of their being played with drumsticks, a technique adopted from Asia. The small rope-strung cylinder drum known as the tabor entered western Europe during the Crusades; the earliest known pictorial evidence is a 12th-century English illumination showing a jongleur disguised as a bear striking a barrel drum suspended from his…
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