Each bamboo angklung plays just one note when shaken, so a tune needs a whole team of players. The Sundanese have played it for centuries; in 1938 Daeng Soetigna of Bandung made one tuned to Western scales.
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📍 London, UK
The world's first underground railway opened in London on 10 January 1863, between Paddington and Farringdon. Steam locomotives pulled gas-lit wooden carriages through the tunnels, and 38,000 people rode it on the first day.
📍 Yorubaland (SW Nigeria & Benin)
The shekere, a dried gourd wrapped in a net of beads or cowrie shells, comes from the Yoruba of West Africa; an 1852 Yoruba dictionary already lists it. It later became a staple of Cuban and Brazilian music too.
📍 Lake Titicaca (Peru & Bolivia)
The siku is the panpipe of the Andes, most at home among the Aymara around Lake Titicaca. Its pipes come in two halves, ira and arka, traditionally played by two musicians who alternate notes to build a single melody.
📍 Nepal
In bagh-chal, "moving tigers" in Nepali, one player has four tigers and the other twenty goats. The tigers win by jumping over and capturing five goats; the goats win by hemming the tigers in so they cannot move.
📍 Japan
Hanafuda's 48 cards come in 12 suits, one flower for each month. They grew out of Portuguese cards in Edo-period Japan, redrawn to slip past bans on card games, and Nintendo began in 1889 in Kyoto by making them.
📍 Eastern China (Shanghai–Wuhan)
Gung ho is Chinese gōnghé, short for 'industrial cooperative', the name of a 1930s movement in China. US Marine officer Evans Carlson took it to mean 'work together' and made it his battalion's motto.