Percussion instruments made of a hollow cylinder with stretched skin or membrane on top that you hit to make loud sounds, or the sound itself.
From Old English 'drum', possibly from Dutch 'trom' or German 'Trommel', likely imitating the sound they make. The word traveled through Germanic languages around the 15th century.
Drums are one of humanity's oldest instruments—archaeologists have found evidence of drum-making dating back 6,000 years, and they appear in nearly every culture on Earth, suggesting they tap into something fundamental about how humans want to communicate.
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