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the original phone, beating messages across jungles long before anyone said hello.
means A hollow percussion instrument, typically with a skin stretched tight across one or both ends, struck to produce sound — or, by extension, any cylindrical container shaped like one.
from From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German 'tromme,' echoed in German 'Trommel' — a word that sounds like what it does, the lips and tongue imitating the boom of a beaten skin. It's an onomatopoeic family across Germanic languages, all of them drumming the same hollow note.
- talking drums
- West African drums mimicked speech tones for miles
- oldest instrument
- drums predate written language by thousands of years
- heartbeat sync
- steady drumming can entrain your actual pulse
- war machine
- armies marched and signaled by drum cadence
- loudness king
- a snare crack can hit 120 decibels
ludwig drums — used by the beatles and led zeppelin, founded 1909 in chicago
evans drumheads — supplied to john bonham and keith moon since 1956
zildjian cymbals — istanbul family company since 1623, used by metallica and tool