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bongo drum

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Noun1.bongo drumbongo drum - a small drum; played with the hands
drum, membranophone, tympan - a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end


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A lot of people ask how someone like Richard Feynman, who played the bongo drums, loved practical jokes, and was an amateur safecracker and a bon vivant, could also win a Nobel Prize in Physics ("Dr.
It became a gathering place and performance venue not only for Beat writers like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac ("He used to bang on my guitar like a bongo drum," Poons recalls), but also for a group of young musicians and artists who had taken the composition course John Cage was teaching at the nearby New School for Social Research, among them Dick Higgins, Al Hansen, and others who would subsequently become part of the Fluxus movement.
Actor Matthew McConaughey was arrested early Monday during a disturbance at his Austin, Texas, home in which police said he was dancing naked and playing the bongo drums.
 
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