A Japanese traditional drum-maker Wednesday put the final nails into a taiko drum he donated to Maui Taiko last year. Hisakatsu Yokoyama, from a town in quake-tsunami ravaged Fukushima prefecture, ...

WAVERLY, Iowa (AP) - Craig Hancock marches to the beat of his own drum. And why not? He built them. The Wartburg College professor and director of the Wind Ensemble spent several months this fall and ...

Tucked away in a forested neighborhood in Monument, Colo., Carla and Jesse Maddox shape red oak and white ash into drums, polished and stained, with cow hides treated and stretched over the drum heads ...

When Hancock took a sabbatical last semester, he was “champing at the bit to get started making taiko drums,” but was sidelined by shoulder surgery. While undergoing rehabilitation, he began learning ...

KAHULUI -When Hisakatsu Yokoyama wrote his name and date last week in the taiko drum body he donated to a Maui taiko group, it marked another link in the Maui-Japan connection forged through taiko ...

Train horns blaring as they passed by were not the only loud sound booming around the Dixon Library on Wednesday morning. The Japanese Taiko Drum also echoed throughout the downtown area thanks to a ...

Taiko drummers are one of many musicians bringing a beat to Sunday's 26.2-mile race.The sound of drums echoing between mountains is a motivating sound for Big Sur International Marathon runners, and ...