Social psychologists agree that the alarming rise in the rate at which teenage garage bands are resorting to sax and violins is due to the widespread and promiscuous use of drums. A committee of experts has made a public appeal for an international program to ensure that youth grow up in a drum-free environment, and that, if they must seek transcendence, they be urged to appeal to archetypal rhythms through the use of a commonly agreed upon set of cymbals.