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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.
Examples of drums:
- bass drum
- snare drum
- tom-tom drum
- timpani
- bongo drum
- djembe
- doyra
- ashiko
- djun-djun
- darabuka
- bodhrán
- dholak
- tabla
- bongo drum
- tenor drum
- log drum
- monkey drum
- Basler drum
- steel drum - not a membranophone, but referred to as a drum
- tabor
- talking drum
- tapan
In the Sachs-Hornbostel scheme of musical instrument classification, drums belong to the membranophone class.
See also: