DRUMLINE CALABAR
SRHD Sports Drumline Ltd in partnership with Cross River State Ministry of Sports presents DRUMLINE CALABAR tagged "LET THE DRUMS SING".
Date: 21st October, 2024
Venue: U.J. Esuene Stadium
Special Guest of Honour: His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Cross River State
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DEFINITION AND BACKGROUND OF PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS
The earliest known examples of percussion instruments idiophones made mammoth bones found in present-day Belgium. These instruments are thought to date back to over 60,000 B.C. and are idiophones which mean they produce sound via the vibration of the entire instrument. Over the year percussion instruments had under gone various evolvement and transformations.
The word percussion comes from the Latin word percussionem, which means “a striking, a blow. The word was first used in 1776 to describe musical instruments. Although, other school of thought believes says the term percussion instruments dates to 1619, when the German music theorist and composer Michael Praetorius wrote of percussa, klopfende.
