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Materials for Membranophones—Timpani, Drums, Tambourine

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In this chapter our attention is focused on the following instruments: timpani, snare drum, bass drum, and tambourine. These membranophone instruments are of definite pitch like the timpani, and drums of indefinite pitch like the snare drum, the bass drum, and the tambourine. These drums produce sounds by the vibration of a stretched membrane.

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Bucur, V. (2022). Materials for Membranophones—Timpani, Drums, Tambourine. In: Handbook of Materials for Percussion Musical Instruments. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98650-6_5

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