////As a humble washboard player I love those old drummers with woodblocks, cowbells, gongs, duck calls etc. Baby Dodds also played Swanee whistle on some tracks.
The British band Temperance Seven and its various reincarnations keep that tradition alive over here.////

The hi-hat totally changed the way drums are played. A lot of drummers today wouldn't know what to do without one.

////If you listen to recordings of Sonny Greer and the master Chick Webb you'll hear more than a bit of bopping and clanging in the background.////

I'm well acquainted with Chick Webb and Sonny Greer. I'm talking about the stuff from the 20s like the two links I provided. Even with the Webb's stuff, you don't hear the tom separation very well so you still can't appreciated his technique the way a digital recording would have afforded. But he was a hell of a drummer and most people don't even know that he was crippled.