Fillmore Progress | 1919-06-13 | Page 5 | Kettledrum is Old

kettledrum la Is old the greeks nn and 1 I romans to tile the accompaniment of 0 the tympanum from which our modern kettledrum tins has been adapted but failed to app apply ly this instrument of percussion to warfare and it Is not till tho the seventh c that the moors and saracens saracena Sara cens of 0 introduced the drum among Europ european Euro penn pan soldiery having themselves acquired it front from the me hindus through gh persian traders ton tite ancient word lt aberl nr ns the french enil it trim bour dir denotes notes tho the origin tho the word for drum helue being tabar