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(Top) Barrel drum from India with cord-tensioned construction, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; (bottom) tubular drum from Borneo.

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In drum
Tubular drums assume many shapes (goblet, hourglass, barrel, etc.) and are considered shallow if the height is less than the diameter. If the drum is so shallow that the shell cannot act as a resonator for the sound (as in a tambourine), it is considered…
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In percussion instrument: Membranophones
Kettledrums and tubular drums occur in both tunable and nontunable forms; friction drums and mirlitons are not tunable. The membranes of the first two groups are either glued, nailed, lapped, or laced to the body, or shell; if they are glued or nailed, the pitch can be…
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