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A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane. It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification. According to Sachs, The sound is produced by a membrane ["skin" or "head"] stretched over an opening.
Directly struck membranophones (211) Instruments in which the membrane is struck directly, such as through bare hands, beaters or keyboards. 211.1 Instruments in which the body of the drum is dish- or bowl-shaped (kettle drums) 211.11 Single instruments. Tamak'. Timpani. 211.12 Sets of instruments. Tabla.
Frame drum: Unpitched 211.3 Membranophone Friction drum: Both Membranophone A drum where a stick or chord is drawn through a hole in the membrane to make a sound. Frog güiro: Galgo: Korea Unpitched 211.242.1 Membranophone Gandingan: Philippines Unpitched 111.241.2 Idiophone Ganzá: Brazil Unpitched 112.13 Gbedu: Yoruba Unpitched Membranophone ...
Membranophones. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Membranophones. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, membranophones are designated as '2'. 2: Instruments in which sound is produced primarily through a vibrating membrane (membranophone). This includes all drums.
Hornbostel–Sachs. Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie in 1914. [1] An English translation was published in the Galpin Society Journal in 1961. It is the most widely used system for ...
211.211.1. (Open ended cylindrical drum) Developed. Middle 20th century. The boobam is a percussion instrument of the membranophone family consisting of an array of tubes with membranes stretched on one end, the other end open. [1] The tuning depends partly on the tension on the membrane and partly on the length of the tube.
Directly struck membranophones is one of the sub-categories of musical instruments found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. The type of membranophones or drums found in this group are those instruments that produce sound when struck directly by the performer. The membrane of these drums is hit with a stick, the ...
A Đông Sơn drum from 3rd to 2nd century BC. A pair of conga drums. The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. [ 1 ] Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly ...