stackyFACTSThe clicking percussion instruments essential to passionate dance routines were literally just empty sea shells smashed together by bored coastal dwellers. Eventually, someone realized wood sounded vastly superior and hurt your hands slightly less.
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When humanity finally breached the atmosphere, the first musical notes played in zero gravity came from a tiny pocket instrument. An astronaut actually…
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While steam engines and factories were changing the landscape of human progress, someone was hard at work patenting a small metal tube that makes your voice…
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The aggressive electronic beats driving modern dance clubs were originally created just to keep lonely keyboard players on a steady rhythm in their living…
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Apparently, the primal urge to hit different sized wooden blocks with a stick is universally embedded in our DNA. Entirely separate groups of humanity figured…
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The simplest instrument in the entire orchestra used to be far more chaotic. They used to hang heavily clanking metal rings all over the edges so every single…
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Most of the high-quality brass plates you hear crashing in modern orchestras trace their exact metal formula back to just one secretive family bloodline. They…
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