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| | A different drum |
 | | The word tamborilero comes from tambor (drum), but to say drummer-man or drummer-boy cannot give even an approximation of what these musicians do. |
 | | How to describe someone who carries on his back the colossal barrel of a drum that he beats by pumping his leg up and down, accompanying that incessant thud thud thud with all manner of other percussive instruments set in motion by both his arms and his other foot, cymbals and tambourines and chimes? |
 | | Round and round they went that day in Iquique, seemingly lapsing into a trance, oblivious of everything around them, apparently disregarding the adults celebrating Chile's past military heroics and the children celebrating the ice cream that vendors hawked in loud voices, but particularly heedless, at their peril, of something more ominous. |
| sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/19/IN84523.DTL (1004 words) |
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