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orchestral drum

musical instrument

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types of drums

  • See a man playing a Korean puk a double-headed barrel drum
    In drum

    Modern European orchestral drums often combine two hoops pressing against each head (one rolled in the skin, the other outside) with indirect lacing (i.e., to the hoops).

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