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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.
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 ...
Orchestral percussion section with timpani, unpitched auxiliary percussion and pitched tubular bells Djembé and balafon played by Susu people of Guinea Concussion idiophones (), and struck drums Modern Japanese taiko percussion ensemble Very large drum kit played by Terry Bozzio Mridangam, an Indian percussion instrument, played by T. S. Nandakumar Evelyn Glennie is a percussion soloist
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
A kebero (Amharic and Tigrinya: ከበሮ) is a double-headed, conical hand drum used in the traditional music of Eritrea, Sudan and Ethiopia. A piece of animal hide is stretched over each end of the instrument, thus forming a membranophone. A large version of the kebero is also used in Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christian liturgical music ...