Drum

In the Sachs-Hornbostel scheme of musical instrument classification, drums belong to the membranophone class. Fabric may mean:. Some examples of drums from different origins. Fibre Channel fabric, a network of Fibre Channel devices enabled by a Fibre Channel switch using the FC-SW topology. . Fabric (club), a London dance club. - see drum (communication). Cloth, a flexible artificial material made up of a network of natural or artificial fibres.

In the past, drums were used as a means of communication and not just for their musical qualities. Drums are also played by percussionists whose skills can be called for in all areas of music from Classical to Heavy Rock & all areas in between. In lots of popular music and jazz, drums usually refers to a drum kit or set of drums, and drummer to the band member or person who plays them. The sound of a drum depends on several variables including shell shape, size, thickness of shell, materials of the shell, type of drumhead, tension of the drumhead, position of the drum, location, and how it is struck.

The membrane is struck, either with the hand or with a drumstick, and the shell forms a resonating chamber for the resulting sound. This gives a louder and longer ring to the notes of the drum, so drums with two heads covering both ends of a tubular shell often have a small hole halfway between the 2 drumheads. It is usual for a drum to have some sort of hole in to let air move through the drum when it is struck. Sometimes they have a solid shell with no holes in at all though this is rare.

Drums with cylindrical shells can be open at one end (as in the timbales) or, more commonly in the Western tradition, they can have another drum head. Other shapes include truncated cones (bongo drums) and joined truncated cones (talking drum). In the western musical tradition, the most usual shape is a cylinder, although timpani for example use bowl-shaped shells. The shell almost invariably has a circular opening over which the drumhead is stretched, but the shape of the remainder of the shell varies widely.

Drums are among the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has been virtually unchanged for hundreds of years. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drumskin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound. A drum is a musical instrument in the percussion family , technically classified as a membranophone. For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation)..

taiko. tapan. doyra. davul.

goblet drum. bodhrán. daf. tonbak.

itótele. bata. okónkolo. sakara.

gudu gudu. totoji. klobotoji. tassa.

bada. talking drum. cuica. kpanlogo.

doumbek. darbuka. iya ilu. atsimevu.

kaganu. sogo. kidi. ashiko.

sabar. repeater. kete. brekete.

ngoma. dun dun. donno. rebana.

monkey drum. message drum. log drum. djun-djun.

djembe. bougarabou. tom-tom drum. timpani (kettledrum).

tenor drum. tabor. snare drum. octoban.

Lambeg drum. bodhrán. bass drum. basler drum.

Mizhavu. Idakka. Madhalam. Chenda.

tabla. khol. dholak. mirdanga.

timbales. tan-tan. steel drum - not a membranophone, but referred to as a drum. surdo.

conga drums. bongo drum.