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Byline: Amanda O'Toole
May 22--FROM AFRICA TO ANDOVER A look of intense concentration was spread across 23 faces in the music room at Cottonwood Elementary School in Andover as students watched their teacher's lead. DeeAnn Freeman patted her hands on a tall drum that stood about chest level.
"Keep the rhythm going. Wait. Wait," she said as she patted and rested on the word "wait." Heads and feet began to tap with her.
"Keep the rhythm going. Wait. Wait." It was only about the fourth time the Cottonwood fifth-graders had a chance to play on the new set of African-style drums, called tubanos. The noise was a clamor, but they were…