Sacramento Kings fans who travel to the playoff game against the Golden State Warriors can’t bring cowbells into Chase Center in San Francisco.

By 1964, the Mississippi State bookstore began offering cowbells for sale. And as years passed, the ringing at home games seemed to get louder and louder and louder.

In 1904, Gustav Mahler used cowbells for his Symphony No. 6. They are a long-time staple of Latin and Cuban music. But the 1980s were the heyday of classic rock and the cowbell.