Lummi stick
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"Rhythm stick" redirects here. For the song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads
, see Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
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Lummi sticks, named after the Lummi
Native American peoples, are hardwood cylindrical sticks, usually roughly 7 inches long, and 0.75 inches in diameter, used as percussive
musical instrument
. They are generally struck against one another, and used frequently in musical education to teach rhythm
.
Another variety, called simply a rhythm stick is 12 inches long, and painted blue. These are generally either cylindrical or fluted, and come in sets containing an equal number of both.
The sticks are used in elementary school education in the US.
A similar stick game is the "Ti Rakau" of the Māori people, played with meter long sticks.
Ian Dury
Ian Robins Dury was an English rock and roll singer, lyricist, bandleader and actor who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and New Wave era of rock music...
, see Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
"Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" is a song and single by Ian Dury & The Blockheads, first released 23 November 1978 and was first released on the 7" single BUY 38 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick / There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards by Stiff Records. It went to number one on the UK Singles...
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Lummi sticks, named after the Lummi
Lummi
The Lummi , governed by the Lummi Nation, are a Native American tribe of the Coast Salish ethnolinguistic group in western Washington state in the United States...
Native American peoples, are hardwood cylindrical sticks, usually roughly 7 inches long, and 0.75 inches in diameter, used as percussive
Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
musical instrument
Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted for the purpose of making musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. The history of musical instruments dates back to the...
. They are generally struck against one another, and used frequently in musical education to teach rhythm
Rhythm
Rhythm may be generally defined as a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions." This general meaning of regular recurrence or pattern in time may be applied to a wide variety of cyclical natural phenomena having a periodicity or...
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Another variety, called simply a rhythm stick is 12 inches long, and painted blue. These are generally either cylindrical or fluted, and come in sets containing an equal number of both.
The sticks are used in elementary school education in the US.
A similar stick game is the "Ti Rakau" of the Māori people, played with meter long sticks.