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Three kinds: a barrel drum, an hourglass drum and a goblet drum. Not pitched but tone can be changed with wax on drumhead Timbal: Brazil Unpitched 211.251.1 Membranophone Timbales: Cuba Unpitched 211.212.2 Membranophone Timpani: Pitched 211.11-922 Membranophone Also called kettle drums Tingsha: Tibet Unpitched 111.142 Idiophone Tom-tom drum ...
Ludwig Drums is a United States musical instrument manufacturer, focused on percussion. It is a subsidiary of Conn-Selmer. Products manufactured by Ludwig include timpani, drum kits, and drum hardware. The company also makes keyboard percussion instruments, such as marimbas, vibraphones, and xylophones, through the Ludwig-Musser brand. [1]
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
The snare drum is one of the most easily recognizable instruments in the entire percussion section. Also called the side drum, the snare drum is often used as a means of accenting rhythms from other families of instruments within the orchestra or as a soloistic type, particularly in pieces that may have a "military" type theme or sound to them.
The American Drum Manufacturing Company was a family-owned timpani manufacturer based in Denver, Colorado. Former Denver Symphony Orchestra timpanist Walter Light, who built a custom set of drums for himself, founded the company in 1950 when his colleagues began asking him to build timpani for them. [1] The company was voluntarily dissolved in ...
Timpani is an Italian plural, the singular of which is timpano. However, in English the term timpano is only widely in use by practitioners: several are more typically referred to collectively as kettledrums, timpani, temple drums, or timps. They are also often incorrectly termed timpanis. A musician who plays timpani is a timpanist.
211.1 Instruments in which the body of the drum is dish- or bowl-shaped, such as the kettle drum. 211.11 Single instruments; 211.12 Sets of instruments, such as orchestral timpani; 211.2 Tubular Drums – Instruments in which the body is tubular 211.21 Cylindrical Drums – Instruments in which the body has the same diameter at the middle and end