Drums are far from the only percussion instruments you can make! Arrange solid beams of wood of different lengths on a stick and hit them and you’re the proud inventor of the xylophone! Put some pebbles in a sealed wooden container and shake it and you’ve invented the maraca. Hit two tiny shells together for castanets, which you can also mount on a curved piece of wood to get tambourines! And if you’ve got metalworking, curved metal sheets make a great noise when struck, which gives you cymbals, and if you go larger, gongs. And you can even add metal to the heel and toe of your shoes, which
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