1.   Adinolfi, a drummer himself, wanted a traditional acoustic drum that could produce digital sound using a regular drum hoop and skin, or head.

2.   Early on, the group wrote and performed biting liberation poetry against a sonic backdrop of traditional African drums.

3.   In colonial times, there had been a rule that forbade people of African descent to make music on traditional drums.

4.   Traditional drums and African violins provided music.

5.   Ultra-Orthodox tourists looked a bit lost amid the crowds of Israeli Arabs smoking water pipes and playing traditional drums in the parking lot.

6.   At the monastery, Buddhist monks played traditional drums and blew trumpets as the fragrance of incense wafted in the air.

7.   Dancing, ringing bells and the beating of traditional drums marked the first celebration of Emancipation Day as a separate holiday from Independence Day in Jamaica Friday.

8.   Greeted at a Cairo hotel by a traditional Egyptian drum and horn fanfare, the balloonists at a news conference described their feelings floating above the earth.

9.   Greeted at a Cairo hotel by a traditional Egyptian drum and horn fanfare, the balloonists described at a news conference their feelings floating above the earth.

10.   On Sunday Azali was among the dozens of arriving leaders greeted with a traditional drum and horn fanfare.