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Drum carried by John Unger, Company B, 40th Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry Mozart Regiment, December 20, 1863

A drum is a percussion musical instrument, consisting of a membrane called a drumhead that is stretched taut over a cylindrical tube that is open at the other end. The membrane is struck, either with the hand or with a drumstick, and the tube forms a resonating chamber for the resulting sound. The sound of a drum depends on how the drum is constructed. Drum carried by John Unger, Company B, 40th Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry Mozart Regiment, December 20, 1863 Source: National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior: File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Drum carried by John Unger, Company B, 40th Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry Mozart Regiment, December 20, 1863 Source: National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior: File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ... A musical instrument is a device that has been constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... A membrane is a thin, typically planar structure or material that separates two environments. ... A drumhead is a membrane stretched over one or both of the open ends of a drum. ... A drum stick is an item used to hit percussion instruments to produce sound. ... Several factors determine the sound a drum produces, including the type of shell the drum has, the type of drumheads it has, and the tension of the drumheads. ...

In most popular music and jazz, drums usually refers to a drum kit or set of drums, and drummer to the band member or person who plays them. Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... A drum kit (or drum set or trap set - the latter an old-fashioned term) is a collection of drums, cymbals and other percussion instruments arranged for convenient playing by a sole percussionist (drummer), usually for jazz, rock, or other types of contemporary music. ... A drummer is a musician who plays the drums, particularly the drum kit, marching percussion, or hand drums. ...

In the past, drums were used as a means of communication - see drum (communication). Communication is the process of exchanging information usually via a common system of symbols. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ...

Examples of drums:

• ashiko
• Basler drum
• bass drum
• bodhrán
• bongo drum
• boucarabou
• conga drums
• goblet drum
• davul
• dholak
• djembe
• djun-djun
• doyra
• khol
• log drum
• message drum
• monkey drum
• rebana
• snare drum
• steel drum - not a membranophone, but referred to as a drum
• tabla
• tabor
• taiko
• talking drum
• tanbur
• tapan
• tenor drum
• timbales
• timpani (kettledrum)
• tom-tom drum

In the Sachs-Hornbostel scheme of musical instrument classification, drums belong to the membranophone class. An Ashiko is a kind of drum shaped like a truncated cone and meant to be played with bare hands. ... A bass drum is a large, heavy drum that produces a thump of low but indefinite pitch. ... Bodhrán with tipper The Bodhrán (IPA or ; plural bodhráin) is an Irish frame drum ranging in anywhere from 10 to 26 in diameter, with most drums measuring from 14 to 18. The sides of the drum are 3 1/2 to 8 deep. ... Bongos being played Bongos are a percussion instrument. ... A bougarabou (actual spelling BouGARabou) is a set of three to four drums commonly used in West Africa. ... Conga is a drum, a type of music, and a type of dance (Conga Line). ... The goblet drum is a goblet or hour-glass-shaped finger drum used in Arab music, Persian music, Balkan music and Turkish music. ... The davul is a type of two-sided frame drum found in the middle east. ... The Dholak (sometimes dholaki) is a classical North Indian hand drum. ... A djembe (also jembe, jenbe, yembe, sanbanyi in Susu; pronounced ZHEM-bay) is a goat skin covered drum shaped like a large goblet and meant to be played with bare hands. ... The Djun-Djun or Djum-Djum (pronounced dununs or dundun) is a cylindrical, double-headed bass drum carved from solid Dembu log and using cow skin membranes. ... Doyra (also dojra) is an Uzbek percussion musical instrument, which is something intemediate between a drum and a tambourine. ... The khol is a terracotta two-sided drum used in northern and eastern India for accompaniment with devotional music. ... A log drum is a type of unpitched percussion instrument that creates is resonance with two toungues that are carved into a hollow box. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... Rebana is a name that is used for several types of drums that are used in Muslim devotional music such as zikir, dance music, and other types of traditional Malay music in Malaysia and neighboring countries such as Brunei and Singapore. ... The snare drum or side drum is a tubular drum made of wood or metal with skins, or heads, stretched over the top and bottom openings. ... Steelpan (also known as Pan or Steel drum, and sometimes collectively with the musicians as a Steelband) is a musical instrument and a form of music originating in Trinidad West Indies. ... Overview The tabla is the most popular percussion instrument used in the classical and popular music of the northern regions of South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, northern India, Pakistan). ... Taiko drummers in Aichi, Japan The word taiko (太鼓) means simply great drum in Japanese. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... A tapan is a huge round drum originating in Macedonia and the Middle East. ... A tenor drum is a low-pitched cylindrical drum. ... Timbales (or tymbales) are shallow cylindrical single-headed drums, similar to single-headed tom-toms. ... Timpani, or kettledrums, are musical instruments in the percussion family. ... A tom-tom (not to be confused with a tamtam) is a cylindrical drum with no snare. ... Hornbostel-Sachs (or Sachs-Hornbostel) is a system of musical instrument classification divised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift für Musik in 1914. ... At various times, and in various different cultures, various schemes of musical instrument classification have been used. ... A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane. ...

See also

• drum and bass
• drum kit
• drum machine
• musical instrument
• Percussive Arts Society
• hearing the shape of a drum
• drum beat

Drum and bass (drum n bass, DnB) is an electronic music style. ... A drum kit (or drum set or trap set - the latter an old-fashioned term) is a collection of drums, cymbals and other percussion instruments arranged for convenient playing by a sole percussionist (drummer), usually for jazz, rock, or other types of contemporary music. ... A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A Drum machines is a device designed to imitate drums and/or other percussion instruments. ... A musical instrument is a device that has been constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... The Percussive Arts Society (PAS) is an international music service organization promoting percussion education, research, performance and appreciation. ... In mathematics, hearing the shape of a drum relates to a series of results that do just that, i. ... A drum beat, a beat on a drum, is any single strike on a single drum, or a series of beats on various percussion instruments creating a rhythmic or metric pattern. ...

External links

• Drumtopia Drum News (http://www.drumtopia.com/) has drumming news, drum tab search and a directory of drum resources.
• CSE (http://www.cse.ogi.edu/Drum/) - The Drums and Percussion Page
• Fun stories involving drums (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/percussion/drum-tales.html)