The membrane or head of a drum, traditionally made from animal skin, that vibrates to produce sound when struck.
From 'drum' + 'skin,' a straightforward compound describing the material stretched across a drum's frame. Animal hides were used for this purpose for thousands of years.
Before plastic drum heads, every drum relied on stretched animal skin—the tighter you pulled it, the higher the pitch, which is why drummers could actually tune their instruments by tightening or loosening the drumskin!
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