Thankfully Dr David Rothenberg of the New Jersey Institute of Technology may have found the answer to that question in his paper To Wail With a Whale: Anatomy of an Interspecies Duet.
"Why?" you may ask, and thankfully the author tells us...
Having spent several years playing my clarinet to birds, sometimes getting a response, sometimes not, I was eager to try this interspecies jamming with humpback whales.
On that note, I think I go see if Tortoises like the drums...