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Villa-Lobos once aroused my envy by showing me his personal collection of native Brazilian percussion instruments. After a visit like that, one asks oneself: how did we ever manage to get along for so long a time with the bare boom of the bass drum and the obvious crash of the cymbals?
— Aaron Copland: Music & Imagination (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures), p. 89