Cylindrical drums are a category of

drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a she ...

instruments that include a wide range of implementations, including the

bass drum The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. The instrument is typically cylindrical, with the drum's diameter much greater than the drum's depth, with a struck head at both ends of the cylinder. Th ...

and the Iranian ''

dohol A dohol(Persian:دهل) is a large cylindrical drum with two skinheads. It is generally struck on one side with a wooden stick bowed at the end, and with a large thin stick on the other side, though it is also played with the bare hands. It is th ...

''. Cylindrical drums are generally two-headed and straight-sided, and sometimes use a buzzing, percussive string. The Iranian ''dohol'' is a famous form of cylindrical drum. Many

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s nears in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia include variations on the dohol and cylindrical drum forms, including the ''dhol'' of Armenia, ''daval'' of Kurdistan and the ''tabl ballady'' of Egypt. Southeastern Europe is home to cylindrical drums like the ''tapan'' of Macedonia and the ''dauli'' of Greece.

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* * Drums Directly struck membranophones {{Membranophone-instrument-stub