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For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation).
A drum is a musical percussion instrument, consisting of a membrane which is usually stretched taut over a cylindrical tube that is open at the other end. The membrane is struck, either with the hand or some other object, and the tube forms a resonating chamber for the resulting sound. A drummer is a person who plays the drums.
In most popular music and jazz, drums or drummer usually refer to a drum kit.
Examples of drums:
- ashiko
- Basler drum
- bass drum
- bodhrán
- bongo drum
- darabuka
- dholak
- djembe
- djun-djun
- doyra
- log drum
- monkey drum
- snare drum
- steel drum - not a membranophone, but referred to as a drum
- tabla
- tabor
- talking drum
- tapan
- tenor drum
- timbales
- timpani
- tom-tom drum
In the Sachs-Hornbostel scheme of musical instrument classification, drums belong to the membranophone class.
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