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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 February 2025. Type of musical instrument of the percussion family For other uses, see Drum (disambiguation). Drum of Company B, 40th New York Infantry Regiment, at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 Talking drum A drum kit A Đông Sơn drum from 3rd to 2nd century BC A pair of conga drums The drum is a ...
A drum kit or drum set [a] (also known as a trap set, or simply drums in popular music and jazz) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other auxiliary ...
A floor tom is a double-skin drum, most often but not always as deep as its diameter, traditionally mounted on three legs and to the drummer's right for a right-handed drummer. It is normally the deepest-toned drum played by sticks in the kit, above the bass drum but below all others, and the most resonant, more so than even the bass drum.
Conga drums are classified according to their size, which correlates to their pitch: larger drumheads have a lower pitch and vice versa. Originally, drums were tuned by adjusting knots and tension ropes on the drumhead, or, more commonly, where the drum heads were tacked or nailed to the top of the shell, by careful heating of the head.
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Among ancient war drums that can be mentioned, junjung was used by the Serer people in West Africa.The Rigveda describes the war drum as the fist of Indra. [1]In early medieval Europe, the Byzantine Empire made use of military drums to indicate marching and rowing cadence, [2] as well as a psychological weapon on the battlefield since the End of Antiquity. [3]
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
Drum Workshop, Inc. (also known as DW Drums or DW) is a drum kit and hardware manufacturing company based in Oxnard, California. Current products by DW include drum sets , snare drums , and hardware .