'drumstick' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to the stick that is used to play drums or a part of a chicken or turkey leg. Example: He picked up a pair of drumsticks and began to play a thunderous beat on the drums. Example: The barbecue party featured a variety of dishes, including grilled drumsticks that were tender and flavorful.
When they play live, Turkmen and Goldsworthy are indeed static, apart from intervals when Turkmen clunks out a rhythm with a drumstick.
In the latter case the shaman makes the journey on the drum as if riding on an animal, the drumstick being his lash.
Sometimes the shaman makes the journey on a river and the drum is his boat, the drumstick his oar.
In going into trance, as well as in mystical combat and healing ceremonies, the shaman uses certain objects such as a drum, drumstick, headgear, gown, metal rattler, mirror, and staff.
In Myanmar (Burma, Thailandd, and south Nias Island (Indonesia) a number of tuned barrel drums of varying sizes are suspended in a low circular pen to form drum chimes; such a chime may consist of from 16 to 24 drums, all played by a single musician with his fingers and palms, occasionally with a drumstick.
An appendage to the epic, Tablet XII, relates the loss of objects called pukku and mikku (perhaps "drum" and "drumstick") given to Gilgamesh by Ishtar.
In some cases the drumstick is decorated with human and animal figures, and rattling rings often hang down from it.
The drumstick is made of wood or horn, and the beating surface is covered with fur.
Horseradish tree, also called drumstick tree, (Moringa oleifera), small, deciduous tree, of the family Moringaceae, native to tropical Asia but also naturalized in Africa and tropical America.
The most excited whoop comes when Rhydian belts an upright drum with a big lollipop drumstick and Ritzy joins in.
Chicken is popular on the Japanese barbie, but they choose more adventurous parts than the drumstick, the favourite of a good British barbecue.
