(a) Lace-tensioned kettledrums: woodcut from Mersenne’s ‘Harmonie universelle’ (1636–7); (b) screw-tensioned kettledrums: woodcut from Praetorius’s ‘Syntagma musicum’ (2/1619)
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(a) Lace-tensioned kettledrums: woodcut from Mersenne’s ‘Harmonie universelle’ (1636–7); (b) screw-tensioned kettledrums: woodcut from Praetorius’s ‘Syntagma musicum’ (2/1619)