membranophone

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Noun

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membranophone - a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each enddrum, tympanbass drum, gran casa - a large drum with two heads; makes a sound of indefinite but very low pitchbongo, bongo drum - a small drum; played with the handsdrumhead, head - a membrane that is stretched taut over a drumpercussion instrument, percussive instrument - a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking anotherside drum, snare drum, snare - a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower headtabor, tabour - a small drum with one head of soft calfskintambour - a drumtambourine - a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sidestenor drum, tom-tom - any of various drums with small headstimbrel - small hand drum similar to a tambourine; formerly carried by itinerant jugglers