In drum printers, a drum carries the entire character set of the printer repeated in each column that is to be printed.

Within the realm of popular music and jazz, " drums " usually refers to a drum kit or a set of drums ( with some cymbals ) and " drummer " to the actual band member or person who plays them.

Drums with two heads can also have a set of wires, called snares, held across the bottom head, top head, or both heads, hence the name snare drum.

The drums were also arranged in the same type of manner that a jazz drum set would be expected to look like.

A drum kit, drum set or trap set is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments set up to be played by a single player.

By the 1930s, Ben Duncan and others popularized streamlined trap kits leading to a basic four piece drum set standard: bass, snare, tom-tom, and floor tom.

In the 1990s and 2000s, many drummers in popular music and indie music have reverted back to basic four piece drum set standard.

This recording-specific particularity had the effect of altering the evolution of the drum set and of stigmatizing the sound of the music recorded at the time.

A set of practice pads mounted to simulate an entire drum kit is known as a practice kit ; These have largely been superseded by electronic drums and kits with non-sounding mesh heads.

Following Jim Mothersbaugh's departure, Bob Mothersbaugh found a new drummer in Alan Myers, who played with mechanical precision on a conventional, acoustic drum set.

Bev Bevan usually displayed the logo on his drum set.

During the finale of " My Generation ", he kicked the drum off the riser and then set off the charge.

It was a very important device at that time, allowing drummers and percussionists the opportunity to trigger virtually any MIDI sound source without the need of a full electronic drum set.

* 1985 – Roland Octapad: A set of visually distinctive electronic drum triggers.

As a replacement bought in Paul Merron who had a sequencer, small studio set up provided drum loops played keyboards and co-produced demos with Jak.

The zoetrope worked on the same principles as the phenakistoscope, but the pictures were drawn on a strip which could be set around the bottom third of a metal drum, with the slits now cut in the upper section of the drum.

A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit (" drum set " or " trap set ", including but not limited to cymbals ) and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and / or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a wide assortment of musical genres.

Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

The alloy used in drum kit cymbal bronze is unique in the desired balance of durability and timbre.

A baldric ( also baldrick, bawdrick, bauldrick as well as some other, mostly rare or obsolete, variations ) is a belt worn over one shoulder that is typically used to carry a weapon ( usually a sword ) or other implement such as a bugle or drum.

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

Inertial drum brake ascenders used in rock climbing and the inertia reels used in many automobile seat belts operate on the same principle.

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.

Prior to the invention of tension rods drum skins were attached and tuned by rope systems such as that used on the Djembe or pegs and ropes such as that used on Ewe Drums, a system rarely used today, although sometimes seen on regimental marching band snare drums.

Because the vibrations resonate in the shell of the drum, the shell can be used to increase the volume and to manipulate the type of sound produced.

They used an early version of the snare drum carried over the player's right shoulder, suspended by a strap ( typically played with one hand using traditional grip ).

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

Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums, ( 和太鼓, " wa-daiko ", " Japanese drum ", in Japanese ) and to the relatively recent art-form of ensemble taiko drumming ( sometimes called more specifically, " kumi-daiko " ( 組太鼓 )).

Other Japanese taiko include the " uchiwa-daiko " ( 団扇太鼓 、 fan taiko ), " hira-daiko " ( 平太鼓, flat taiko ), " minariisa-daiko " ( fun time drum ), " konisawa-daiko " ( tight / hard / tense drum ) and a host of percussion instruments used in Japan's traditional noh, gagaku, and kabuki ensembles.

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.

Cymbals other than rides, hi-hats and crashes are called effects cymbals when used in a drum kit.

An ordinary tambourine can be used, or a tambourine produced specially for drum kit use.

Sometimes, for the sake of appearance or of the desired " feel " of the instrument, a drum with a trigger will be used as a trigger pad by muffling it so heavily that no significant sound at all is produced, see Electronic drum # Acoustic triggered drum kit.

Trigger sensors are most commonly used to replace the acoustic drum sounds.

For example, in a live performance in a difficult acoustical space, a sensor may be placed on every drum and cymbal, and used in each case to trigger a similar sound.

As Brother John Sellers sang five `` blues '' to the guitar and drum accompaniments of Bruce Langhorne and Shep Shepard, Mr. Ailey and Miss De Lavallade went through volatile dances that were by turns insinuating, threatening, contemptuous and ecstatic.

Saltwater fish eaten by the American Indians were cod, lemon sole, flounder, herring, halibut, sturgeon, smelt, drum on the East Coast, and olachen and salmon on the West Coast.

* Other: Correspondences include blood, the guitar, thunder, drum beat rubies and in writing fire is sometimes represented by a red upwards triangle.

John Adams, known by baseball fans as " The Drummer ", has played a bass drum at nearly every home game since 1973.

Computer controlled music is also found in the performance pieces by the Canadian composer Udo Kasemets such as the Marce ( ntennia ) l Circus C ( ag ) elebrating Duchamp ( 1987 ), a realization of the Marcel Duchamp process piece Erratum Musical using an electric model train to collect a hopper-car of stones to be deposited on a drum wired to an Analog: Digital converter, mapping the stone impacts to a score display ( performed in Toronto by pianist Gordon Monahan during the 1987 Duchamp Centennial ), or his installations and performance works ( e. g. Spectrascapes ) based on his Geo ( sono ) scope ( 1986 ) 15x4-channel computer-controlled audio mixer.

On modern band and orchestral drums, the drumhead is placed over the opening of the drum, which in turn is held onto the shell by a " counterhoop " ( or " rim "), which is then held by means of a number of tuning screws called " tension rods " which screw into lugs placed evenly around the circumference.

The head of a talking drum, for example, can be temporarily tightened by squeezing the ropes that connect the top and bottom heads.

Similarly, the tabla is tuned by hammering a disc held in place around the drum by ropes stretching from the top to bottom head.

The second biggest factor affecting the sound produced by a drum is the tension at which the drum head is held against the shell of the drum.

A drum is called a membranophone, or an instrument that creates sound by striking a stretched membrane with some type of object, usually a rounded stick.

The common element of most house music is a 4 / 4 beat generated by a drum machine or other electronic means ( such as a sampler ), together with a solid ( usually also electronically generated ) synth bassline.

The drum can also be played by more than one performer at the same time.

* A bass drum, played by a pedal operated by the right foot.

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.