Each fall, as school starts up again, music educators witness a familiar ritual: Eager first-time students squeak on a clarinet, suppress giggles at the noises coming from the tubas and zealously hit a bass drum a little too hard.

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The Leedy bass drum set observed on the tour is dated from the 1920s and includes a c. 1900 Chinese tom tom and c. 1920’s Zildjian and Chinese cymbals.

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This young member of The Pride Of The Hill Band, Rathfriland looking the part with his mini sized bass drum.

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