Drum
A drum is a musical percussion instrument, consisting of a membrane which is usually stretched taut over a cylindrical tube that is open at the other end. The membrane is struck, either with the hand or some other object, and the tube forms a resonating chamber for the resulting sound. A drummer is a person who plays the drums.Examples of drums:
In the Sachs-Hornbostel scheme of musical instrument classification, drums belong to the membranophone class.
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1910. Others of my time and place have now passed whither there is
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forget myself as to be a novelist. I was, with my friend J. J. Piatt,
had lately accepted and had begun to print in the Atlantic Monthly five
and criticisms for the Saturday Press of New York, a long-forgotten but
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