On the floor between them sits a sculpture by Roni Horn, a weighty volume of solid black glass the size and shape of a bass drum, with a top so shiny that it looks like liquid ink.
A master carpenter then carved out the rough shape of the drum body with a chisel; the texture of the wood after carving softened the tone of the drum.
They are all high-end luxury objects, or parts of objects, with jewel-like workmanship, from an archaic bronze ritual wine vessel in the shape of an owl and a drum base entwined with a serpentine dragon, to a pair of chariot fittings depicting dragons chasing phoenixes in inlaid gold and silver.
"The shape it has is clearly of a drum.
Bowie met the Britpop era with a sartorial nod �� a distressed union jack frock coat by Alexander McQueen – and a wave of dismissal in the shape of a new album propelled by drum'n'bass rhythms.
One, located in the Upper Hall of the court, consisted of a chime of 12 stones, a series of 12 bells, a zither of 25 strings (Chinese se), a zither with 7 strings (Chinese qin), flutes, panpipes, a scraper in the shape of a tiger, a double-headed drum, a mouth organ, and a globular whistle.
This was made as a drum, in the shape of a cow, somewhere in central Africa in the mid-19th century.
It employes a new family of cheap and powerful microsensors, to be placed in shape of a fine grid around each waste drum.
The afterbirth splattered slow motion and golden, into the exact shape of Neil Peart's drum kit.
