Word: instrument
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...musical past is pretty typical: forced piano lessons--again from my mother--for about eight years, and four years of drums. Since guitar wasn't offered, percussion--meaning drums!--was by far the coolest instrument choice a guy could have in grade school. Tuba ran a distant second. Why anyone would pick some instrument like the clarinet was beyond me. The chance to get a grade for beating things with sticks was irresistable...
...Dorthy heard dogs barking and a commotion outside. Martha's body was found at noon the next day under a tree in the Moxley yard. She lay in a 3-ft. pool of blood; her head had been bludgeoned some 14 times with a blunt instrument, and the sharp, broken shaft of that instrument, a Toney Penna 6-iron golf club, had been driven into her throat...