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The drum a musical instrument from the family of percussion. Distributed in most peoples used in many musical ensembles. The drummer on the drum is a drummer.

A typical representative is a membrane drum consisting of a hollow body-a resonator of a certain shape or frame on which a leather or plastic membrane is stretched. Its tension controls the relative height of the sound. The drum body is made of wood metal acrylic plastic or even clay.

The sound is removed by blowing the membrane with a wooden beater with a soft tip a stick brushes hands and sometimes friction. To use several instruments at the same time the drums are assembled into a drum kit.

Drums of other designs steel drum slotted drum do not have membranes and belong to idiophones.

During the excavations in Mesopotamia one of the oldest percussion instruments was found made in the form of small cylinders whose origins date back to the 6th millennium BC, and also include rock carvings in caves of South America. The age of the drum found in Moravia dates back to the fifth millennium BC. E., In ancient Egypt, the drums arose over 4 thousand years BC. E. It is known about the existence of drums in ancient Sumer. A long history of the development of the instrument is also evidenced by the great variety of its species in our days.

Since ancient times the drum has been used as a signaling tool as well as for accompanying ritual dances religious rituals military processions and actions such as where it would be necessary to keep a rhythm for example to go run pull row or beat in concert. For example even with the ancient Greeks and Romans the tympanum the predecessor of modern timpani was used in the cults of Cybele and Bacchus as well as in the army and the rowing fleet. And so on for example in the 16th century drums were used in the British Army in infantry in dragoons and cavalry. In the time of Henry VIII in each company of 100 people there were two drummers. In the XVII century the main signals used by drummers were Attention Build Readiness March Attack Retreat.

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