Macaque monkeys drum objects in a rhythmic way to show social dominance and this has been shown to be processed in a similar way in their brains to vocalizations suggesting an evolutionary origin to drumming as part of social communication.

These songs of longing and romance once served as a courtship ritual and still do today to some extent on this island where the drum is an integral part of the culture.

By World War I drum kits were characterized by very large bold marching bass drums and many percussion items suspended on and around them, and they became a central part of jazz music, specifically ( but not limited to ) dixieland.

In the 21st century, it is not uncommon for drummers to use a variety of auxiliary percussion instruments, found objects, and electronics as part of their " drum " kits.

A hi-hat, or hihat, is a type of cymbal and stand used as a typical part of a drum kit by percussionists in R & B, hip-hop, disco, jazz, rock and roll, house, reggae and other forms of contemporary popular music.

It is a standard part of the modern drum kit.

This includes frequency scaling and mixing of software channels back into the two-channel output, though most 32X games used the PWM unit to play back fixed-frequency samples such as drum kits, voices, and sound effects, and have the main part of the music run from the YM2612 and PSG channels.

A turbine is a turbomachine with at least one moving part called a rotor assembly, which is a shaft or drum with blades attached.

Is a genre of marching ensemble descended from it military drummers and can be arranged as a performance of a drum, a group of drummers, and as a part of a larger marching band.

By 1996, most 4-beat had dropped its breakbeats ( in part due to bouncy techno ), while drum and bass had long dropped the techno style synth stabs, further separating the two styles.

Scar tissue after ear infections may also make the ear drum dysfunction as well as when it is retracted and adherent to the medial part of the middle ear.

It can also be played by one person with the drum and the stick part as accompaniment, or by a soloist.

During the Brain Salad Surgery tour of 1974 ( one show of which was documented on the 3-LP set, Welcome Back My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends ), Emerson's keyboard setup included the Hammond C-3 organ, run through multiple Leslie speakers driven by HiWatt guitar amplifiers, the Moog 3C modular synthesiser ( modified by addition of various modules and an oscilloscope ) with ribbon controller, a Steinway concert grand piano with a Moog Minimoog synthesiser on top of it ( used for the steel drum part on Karn Evil 9, 2nd Impression ), an upright acoustic-electric piano that was used for honky-tonk piano sounds, a Hohner Clavinet and another Moog Minimoog synthesiser.

A drum brake is a brake in which the friction is caused by a set of shoes or pads that press against a rotating drum-shaped part called a brake drum.

In this situation, a small drum is usually fitted within or as part of the brake disc.

John French's 2010 book Through the Eyes of Magic describes some of the " talks " which were initiated by his actions such as being heard playing a Frank Zappa drum part (" The Blimp ( mousetrapreplica )") in his drumming shed, and not having finished drum parts as quickly as Beefheart wanted.

He had the drum beat in the Master's head implanted in the past as part of a link between the Time Lords and Earth, and sent a White Point Star, a flawless uncut diamond found only on Gallifrey, to Earth in 2010 to be retrieved by the Master, and used in a machine to open a pathway for the Time Lords and Gallifrey to materialise.

Acquired cholesteatomas predominantly arise following retraction of part of the ear drum in response to middle ear inflammation.

It is said that he pioneered the art of slap-pop playing on the electric bass, in part to provide percussive and rhythmic elements in addition to the notes of the bass line when his mother's band lacked a drummer ; the slap of the thumb being used to emulate a bass drum and the pop of the index or middle finger as a snare drum.

The timbales play the bell pattern, the congas play the supportive drum part, and the bongos improvise, simulating a lead drum.

Migdol was replaced by the enigmatic Colombian drummer Robo, whose numerous clicking metallic bracelets became part of his drum sound.

The sound of his footsteps was like a muffled drum.

The boundless blue air was stretched over the zenith like the skin of a drum.

And despite Knowlton's attempts to show that the house was locked up tighter than a drum, this was not true.

The original ABC was eventually dismantled, when the University converted the basement to classrooms, and all of its pieces except for one memory drum were discarded.

One system employed in these devices was the use of pegs and cams placed into a wooden drum at specific locations, which would sequentially trigger levers that in turn operated percussion instruments.

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The leaf spring was not used to pull the catapult armature directly, rather the rope was wound around a drum.

The catapult armature was attached to this drum which would be turned until enough potential energy was stored in the deformation of the spring.

The sound of a drum depends on several variables, including shape, size and thickness of its shell, materials from which the shell was made, counterhoop material, type of drumhead used and tension applied to it, position of the drum, location, and the velocity and angle in which it is struck.

It is to this instrument that the English word " drum " was first used.

Approaching or entering a battle, the taiko yaku ( drummer ) was responsible for setting the marching pace, usually with six paces per beat of the drum ( beat-2-3-4-5-6, beat-2-3-4-5-6 ).

Incorporating experiments in British jungle and drum ' n ' bass, Earthling ( 1997 ) was a critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album became UK top 40 hits.

Ludwig-Musser, William F. Ludwig Senior and his brother Theodor Ludwig founded the Ludwig & Ludwig Co. in 1909 and patented the first workable bass drum pedal system, paving the way for what was to become the modern drum kit.

On top of the console was a " contraption " ( shortened to " trap ") tray used to hold whistles, klaxons, and cowbells, thus drum kits were dubbed " trap kits.

Gene Krupa was the first drummer to head his own orchestra and thrust the drums into the spotlight with his drum solos.

At the receiving end, a handset ’ s speaker was attached to an acoustic coupler ( a microphone ), and a demodulator converted the varying tone into a variable current that controlled the mechanical movement of a pen or pencil to reproduce the image on a blank sheet of paper on an identical drum rotating at the same rate.

The latter could thus be thought of as capable of either ' glissando ' or ' portamento ', depending on whether the drum was rolled or not.

As each magazine emptied, the drum was manually rotated to bring a new magazine into use until all 400 rounds had been fired.

Early house music was generally dance-based music characterized by repetitive 4 / 4 beats and rhythms centered around drum machines, off-beat hi-hat cymbals and synthesized basslines.

His # 1 R & B hit that year, " Cold Sweat ", sometimes cited as the first true funk song, was the first of his recordings to contain a drum break and the first that featured a harmony that was reduced to a single chord.