A drumstick with a brown plastic tip used by African-American jazz drummer and bandleader Arthur Blakey (1919-1990). The stick is wood and cylindrical with one rounded end and one tapered end with a small, brown plastic tip. There are small gouges on the tapered area of the stick, and the shaft has a small crack.

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