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Visiting Chinese national percussion orchestra. I heard this in 1973 at the University of British Columbia (Robert Silverman's home ground). I was outside of the Music building on a beautiful sunny afternoon when this gong gong crash boom crash became audible. As I approached the building my appreciation of the noise grew. When I finally got into the building to see them perform, I had to leave and stand outside again. It was something like a cigar, it smells nice in very small doses wafting on the air. This percussion music also sounded wonderfull to me when taken in small amounts against the background of a campus.