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Show I Drum's Long History j The history of the drum is both an-! an-! dent and honorable. The Egyptians employed It, and the Greeks ascribed ' Its invention to Bacchus. The Spanish Span-ish conqueror Pizarro is said to have found drums in South American temples. tem-ples. The snakes of Ireland, we are told, fled from the Emerald isle before 1 the drum-beats of St. Patrick. The ' Puritans of New England used the drum as a church bell, and It figured frequently and romantically all ' through our Revolutionary and Civil wars. |