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[[File:Goblet drum 01.jpg|thumb|I visit it by [[day]], I visit it at [[nightfall]]. I always stand by the [[lamentation]] drum! ~ [[Sumerian proverb]]]]

The '''{{w|drum}}''' is a member of the [[w:percussion instrument|percussion]] group of [[musical]] instruments. In the {{w|Hornbostel-Sachs}} classification system, it is a [[w:membranophones|membranophone]].
==Quotes==

* I visit it by [[day]], I visit it at [[nightfall]]. I always stand by the [[lamentation]] drum!
** [[Sumerian proverb]], [http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/proverbs/t.6.1.01.html Collection I] at {{w|The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature}}, {{w|3rd millennium BCE}}.

* I really think that the drums are as [[poetry|poetic]] and [[romanticism|romantic]] as any instrument.
** [[w:Tony Williams (drummer)|Tony Williams]], as quoted in [https://archive.org/details/modern-drummer-issue-56/page/n11 "Tony Williams"] by Rick Mattingly, ''{{w|Modern Drummer}}'' (June 1984), p. 10

* It's not like I don't know I'm playing loud. I mean, that's drumming. If you want polite, go listen to the [[w:Modern Jazz Quartet|MJQ]]. If you want soft, listen to {{w|Sérgio Mendes}}. See, that's part of the ethic and whole world of drumming: drums are meant to be loud. It's like telling a piccolo player, "Don't play high" or telling a trumpet player, "Don't be so brassy" or telling a bass player, "Don't play so low." Volume, physicality, and [[aggression|aggressiveness]] are part of what drumming is all about.
** Tony Williams, as quoted in [https://archive.org/details/modern-drummer-issue-152/page/n75/mode/2up "Tony Williams: A Master's Perspective"] by Bill Milkowski, ''Modern Drummer'' (July 1992), p. 75

==External links==
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{{Wiktionary|drum}}
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{{Wikiversity|Category:Drums}}
* "[[Wikisource:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Drum|Drum]]" . {{w|Encyclopædia Britannica}}. '''8''' (11th ed.). 1911.
* {{dmoz|Arts/Music/Instruments/Percussion/Drums|Drum resources}}

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