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Flintlock, ignition system for firearms, developed in the early 16th century.

Percussion instrument, any musical instrument belonging to either of two groups, idiophones or membranophones.

OK, it's been a stressful week already and I needed a break from the usual BS. I'm going to pick 2 for starters that are in different decades but for the time frame were the best in My opinion/era/Genre. I don't care what type of music but this Thread is (hopefully) going to be about Percussion Solo, meaning only 1 person on the Instrument(s).1) Neil Pert from Rush.2) John Bonnham from Led Zeppelin.BTW- both of My picks are playing for God in Heaven...

There's never really any true way to know whether a Saturday Night Live sketch will become an instant classic or quickly fade from memory. But as Will Ferrell taught audiences on April 8, 2000, you can tilt the odds pretty drastically in your favor if you fall back on a Blue Öyster Cult hit, some banging cowbell and a fittingly bizarre Christopher Walken performance. We're talking, of course, about the "More Cowbell" sketch, which imagines the recording session that produced the Blue Öyster Cult classic "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" — specifically the contributions made by cowbell player Gene Frenkle (Ferrell),...

First it was Buddy Miles. Then it was Tony Joe White. Now it's War. In each case, curiosity spurred by my personal music library resulted in digging deeper to learn how these artists did under live conditions, and what else they might demonstrate in the way of artistry. Until this evening, my ears never heard this band live. Moreover they were subject to the Top 40 Hits almost entirely, although I recall getting one of their albums through the Columbia House Record Club back in the day. The most distict aspects to their sound are these: the unison harmonica and...

They probably appeared in Poland approximately 300,000 years ago. The oldest stone tools they used, discovered on the Vistula, are over 200,000 years old, and the remains are over 100,000 years old. "On the bank of the river in Pietraszyno, we discovered an unprecedented amount of flint products - 17,000 - abandoned by Neanderthals approximately 60,000 years ago" - says Dr. Andrzej Wisniewski from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Wroclaw. Since 2018, the researcher has been conducting joint excavations with researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig in the framework of a National Science Centre...

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