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  2. Bongo drum - Wikipedia

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    Bongo drums produce relatively high-pitched sounds compared to conga drums, and should be held behind the knees with the larger drum on the right when right-handed. It is most often played by hand and is especially associated in Cuban music with a steady pattern or ostinato of eighth-notes known as the martillo (hammer). [ 3 ]

  3. List of Indian musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Musical instruments of the Indian subcontinent can be broadly classified according to the Hornbostel–Sachs system into four categories: chordophones (string instruments), aerophones (wind instruments), membranophones (drums) and idiophones (non-drum percussion instruments).

  4. List of Indian timber trees - Wikipedia

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    Himalayan Elm, Indian Elm Ulmus wallichiana: Red 960 kg/m 3: 1,620 lb/cu yd Throughout India It is moderately hard and strong. It is used for door and window frames, and carts. Ironwood, Penaga Lilin, Bosneak, Gangaw, Mesua Mesua ferrea: Reddish brown [5] 960–1,060 kg/m 3: 1,620–1,790 lb/cu yd [6]

  5. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  6. Bongo (antelope) - Wikipedia

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    The western or lowland bongo, T. e. eurycerus, faces an ongoing population decline, and the IUCN Antelope Specialist Group considers it to be Near Threatened on the conservation status scale. [2] The eastern or mountain bongo, T. e. isaaci, of Kenya, has a coat even more vibrant than that of T. e. eurycerus. The mountain bongo is only found in ...

  7. East India (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    East India DLR station, a railway station in East London; East Indian(s) may refer to: Bombay East Indians, a Marathi-Konkani ethnoreligious group in Mumbai, India. East Indian language is the dialect of Marathi-Konkani, spoken by East Indians people in Mumbai, India; Indian Americans, residents of the United States descended from migrants from ...

  8. Goblet drum - Wikipedia

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    Some players move their fists in and out of the bell to alter the tone. Some players also place their hands on the surface of the drum to produce a muted sound. There are a variety of rhythms (see dumbek rhythms) that form the basis of the folkloric and modern music and dance styles of the Middle East.

  9. Music of Trinidad and Tobago - Wikipedia

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    Chutney uses a mixture of East Indian classical music, East Indian folk music, bhajans and ghazals (bhajans and ghazals are religious songs), Western and African instruments, and usually the Indian musical instruments: harmonium, dholak, tabla, dhantal, manjira, tassa, and sometimes the bulbul tarang or mandolin to accompany its fast-paced soca ...