Bones have been played in American music. I was at a workshop on bones given by an older white guy, Percy Danforth, (who's by now most likely deceased) at the Gottagetgon Festival in about 1975 or 6. (Back then it was held on the site of the Fox Hollow fest.) He demonstrated with some actual bone bones, but he sold wooden "bones" to neophytes like me. The bone ones had a brighter sound.

Appalachian music has also used spoons and limberjacks for rhythm instruments. Quebecois music is famous for incorporating the sound of dancing feet.

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