a type of instrument where the sound is produced by vibrations from a stretched membrane
World music classification for instruments that produce sound from a tightly stretched membrane that can be struck, plucked, rubbed or sung into (setting the "skin" in vibration). The most common Western instruments of this category belong to the percussion family ( timpani, bass drum). The conga drum is a membranophone often used in popular music.
An instrument that produces sound through the vibrations of a membrane.
A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane. It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification.