Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Any musical instrument that produces sound via the vibration of a stretched membrane
WordNet 3.0
- n. a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
Examples
“The drum is a percussion instrument, technically classified as a membranophone, referring to the membrane (drumhead) that's stretched over a shell and stuck to produce sound.”
“The Hebrew word tof represents a hand-held frame-drum, a hoop-shaped drum with a diameter wider than its depth and well known as a popular membranophone (percussion instrument) from artistic representations preserved from the ancient Near East.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘membranophone’.
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Phones, But Not Telephones!
These are musical instruments or mythological figures instead!
saxophone, heckelphone, sarrusophone, mellophone, sousaphone, lamellophone, metallophone, xylophone, vibraphone, crystallophone, pyrophone, idiophone and 53 more...
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