Appendix 1 Percussion Instruments

Membrane - with air chamber: Timpani. Side drum.
Wooden percussion blocks: Marimba. Castanets.

Picture - 'A History of Illuminated Manuscripts' by Christopher de Hamel (Phaidon Press Ltd 1986) Page 14, Plate 6. MS Cotton Vespasian A.1. Psalter (7th Century). British Library.

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