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" Is it just me, or is the video not here?"

"That thing is MIGHTY heavy!    Also, looks like it's reversible: an eye to hang it from, or switch it to have a handle!"

"Thanks. So, do any of Rice's stories of the acquisition of Jim Crow make sense? I love the St.Louis stablehand tale...but now, you say evidence states he was working on it nearly a year before he arrived in the Gateway to the West. Any…"

"So, Alain Locke did not coin that phrase after all; eh?"

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFWJmcB83Yw"

"Joel Hooks' idea re the "de-volution" of tambo is real.  If we look at '60s groups, a tambo is for tapping one one's hip and mildly shaking, period.  Percussion in the West I've experienced & read of is…"

"The scant descriptions that managed to stay in my head (no citations!) described very little subtlety in tambo playing.  Of course, I assume the prejudice of the writers towards sensationalism.  If we think of the cultures that were coming…"

"Is that me on percussion?  Bones?  or sticks on gourd?"

"Hello!  Thanks for sharing.  Yes; I'd also love to see the original score, to try my hand at it, if you do have it.  Also--was there a name on that piece, or did you give it that title?"

"Yep; a Remo frame drum played in semi-dumbek style....and a Goodtime!"

"Hello, Strumelia!  Yes; James Pentecost is correct.  That tambo was made by Deacon George, with that hand-beaten brass jingle tone!"