Music Drum Assessment

Where: Drums were created by American Indians and the Indigenous people from Peru

What: The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone.

Why: 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. The larger the diameter of the shell, the lower the pitch.

How: The most familiar beaters are wooden sticks, generally used to play smaller drums such as snare drums, and padded wooden mallets, used to play larger drums such as bass drums. Sometimes drums are struck with wire brushes or other types of beaters to produce a different sound

When: 1800 in Peru

Who: American Indians and the Indigenous People