1) Percussion instrument beater 
[music] The rute (also spelled ruthe, from the German for `rod` or `switch`) is a beater for drums. Commercially made rutes are usually made of a bundle of thin birch dowels or thin canes attached to a drumstick handle. These often have a movable band to adjust how tightly the dowels are bound toward the tip. A rute may also be made of a bu...