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In ancient Babylon and Assyria, percussion instruments like
drums, Sumerian Ala and Semitic Ala were in vogue. In early America,
the most important musical instruments of the early Native Americans
were, the drum.
The Drum varied in shape from the Eskimo Tambourine like hoop
with taut-skin, great or small, to snake-skin drum played in the worship
of Aztec War-God.
The Teponaztli of the Aztecs was a peculiar nature drum, which
would produce rich round of several octaves.
'Musical Instruments of the World', an illustrated Encyclopedia
mentions instruments of the Orchestra at different periods. The basis of
small Baroque Orchestra was the String group. Oboes and Bassoons
appeared regularly while Trumpets, Timpani and Horns were used only
sparingly. The typical classical Orchestra had a large string group and
also consisted of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets and
timpani. The Romantic Orchestra included enlarged string, wind and
brass groups and new instruments like the Tuba, Harp and Celeste.
Dr.B.C.Deva in his popular book titled 'Musical Instruments of
India' explains that Legend has it that Baba Sawandik, the Indian,
played the Kettledrum called the Kus in the war of prophet. The
kettledrum had several types. The ordinary mounted Kettledrum was
Tabl al-markab or Dabdab. Kus, Qasa and Kurka were other varieties of
the Kettledrum. Naqqara is a West-Asian word corresponds to Nagara.
The 'Naqqar Khana' music group is very famous of Emperor Akbar, and
Ain-i-Akbari mentions it as having twenty pairs of Naqqaras.