Instrumental History Of The Drums

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Instrumental History of the Drums

The first instrumental drum was called a timpani or kettledrums. This drums
origin is of Eastern origin. Small kettledrums were introduced into Europe as
early as the 13th century.

The European kettledrum , which is used in American orchestras also, derives its
special sound from the size and shape and diameter of its bowl. This bowl is
usually made of copper or fiberglass.

Another primary drum is the snare drum. It was developed drom double-skinned
drum of medieval times known as the tabor. This drum, also called a side drum ,
has its distinctive feature several gut or wire strings that stretch across the
instruments lower skin. The upperskin is struck with a drum stick, while being
struck the strings vibrate, giving this instrument  its characteristic crisp
staccato.

This small  medieval instrumnet gradually increased size, about the 15th century.
It was so often combined in a performance with a fife that these two instrumnets
became closely associated with one another. A fife is a small flute having from
six to eight finger holes and it also has no key, used mainly with drums in
playing  marche...

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