In it, animal skins are used to cover mounds of rock in a landscape and Mr. Sensabaugh sees them as the precursors of stone drum stools.
The British Museum does have capital Fs too: the Portland stone drum of the Reading Room is inscribed with their names, slightly giving the impression that they have all died and been bricked up inside the walls.
A simple cupola springs from the octagonal stone drum and is of light construction similar to most mosques in the Levant.
By then, the stone drummer was dead, and apparently his techniques died with him.
Her eponymous first album featured a stellar line-up put together by Sly Stone drummer Greg Errico and including the Pointer Sisters on backing vocals.
In 1981, five years before he moved from Beijing to New York, he visited Hunan and encountered stone drumming, a ritual performance form that involves tapping stones to produce different pitches and timbres, as well as mystical vocalizations that put the player in touch with past and future lives.
Bowie's "plastic soul" period was a fine approximation of contemporary R&B with a soupçon of gospel, aided by American musicians that included backing singer Luther Vandross, Sly and the Family Stone drummer Andy Newmark, and Puerto Rican guitarist Carlos Alomar, who, on meeting Bowie, described him as "the whitest man I've ever seen".
The Stones' drummer, Charlie Watts, said their "first thought is to support Mick at this awful time".
"Chinese Democracy" is a dizzying, overpacked suitcase of loud guitars, avian screeching, and ten-stone drumming that took over a decade to produce.
Early on, Charlie Watts, the Stones drummer, is seen in the editing room, watching footage with David Maysles, who tells him that it will take eight weeks to edit the film.
At 74, he seems to be the oldest star on the bill, older than even the Rolling Stones (Jagger and Richards will celebrate their 70th birthdays this year while Stones drummer Charlie Watts is 71 and Wood 65).
