'Music/Musician' from NoelW: Mongol Drummer

I've had these two figures for years, and never really been sure what I was going to do with them. The Mongol commander clearly needed an army - which I don't have - and the drummer probably belongs to some army I've no knowledge of (Polish Renaissance? Turk?) but looked vaguely oriental to me. So this challenge gave me the idea of making a command stand for an army I don't yet have - probably a sort of fantasy Mongol/Hun wild cavalry army. 

The drummer has what we'd probably call "kettle drums" but more accurately are "nakers" - an ancient word for an ancient kind of drum, which in turn has led to an analogy in common parlance whose origin most of us probably aren't familiar with. (Which reminds me of the origin of "to freeze the balls off a brass monkey", whose origin is similarly innocent, the monkey being a brass plate on which iron cannon balls sat. In cold weather, the two metals shrank at differential rates, with the consequence that the iron balls fell off the plate).

Apologies again for poor pictures. Bad lighting, which doesn't really do justice to the figures, but you'll probably get the idea pretty well.