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  • Georg "Goggi" Hólm and Orri Páll Dýrason form an inventive and brilliant rhythm section, Goggi occasionally attacking his bass with a drum-stick, and Orri defying all the rules of conventional rhythm in his percussion work.

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  • Georg "Goggi" Hólm and Orri Páll Dýrason form an inventive and brilliant rhythm section, Goggi occasionally attacking his bass with a drum-stick, and Orri defying all the rules of conventional rhythm in his percussion work.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • Then he lifted the drum-stick, and after waiting a moment or two, to become still in soul, he sounded the rhythmic summons, rather slow, yet with a curious urge in its strong-weak, one-two rhythm.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • The terrace, or loggia, was strewn with the native palm-leaf mats, petates, and there was a drum in one corner, with the drum-stick upon it.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • The chingufu of East Africa is a hollow box performed upon with a drum-stick of caoutchouc.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • I hurried home, and was but just got to my door when they flung the drum-stick after me, and broke one of my shins.

    Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian Various

  • Bella chose a merry-thought; little Sarah liked a hug-me-fast; Carry took a wishing-bone; Thomas said he would have the other drum-stick to help beat the monkey, and Fanny thanked her Grandma for a wing, so that she could fly away when the beating of the monkey took place.

    The Apple Dumpling and Other Stories for Young Boys and Girls Unknown

  • The children all took turkey; Willy asked for a drum-stick, and his cousin Mary said he wanted it to beat the monkey he ate in the morning.

    The Apple Dumpling and Other Stories for Young Boys and Girls Unknown

  • By the aid of one drum-stick, the person who has been detailed for this duty, keeps up a beating motion on a sort of kettle-drum, the noise of which serves the purpose of marking time.

    The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters

  • And pardons were begged and kisses were given, and the three little silver pieces crept back into the tiny porte-monnaie, and Zay had some of Mary's nice toast with lots of gravy, and a drum-stick and a wish-bone.

    Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories M. T. W.

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