drum

type of musical instrument of the percussion family
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drum

Summary

drum is a type of musical instrument[1]. drum draws 789 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_musical_instrument category, ranking #52 of 399).[2]

Key Facts

  • drum's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument[3].
  • drum is a type of struck membranophone[4].
  • drum is a type of musical instrument[5].
  • drum is part of drum kit[6].
  • drum's Commons category is recorded as Drums[7].
  • drum's Unicode character is recorded as 🥁[8].
  • drum's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Drums[9].
  • drum's Commons gallery is recorded as Drums[10].
  • drum's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[11].
  • drum's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • drum's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • drum's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[14].
  • drum's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[15].
  • drum's described by source is recorded as Diccionario del español de México[16].
  • drum's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[17].
  • drum's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • drum's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 21[19].
  • drum's different from is recorded as Q4097679[20].
  • drum's different from is recorded as Trommel screen[21].
  • drum's exact match is recorded as http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/03249569-n[22].
  • drum's produced sound is recorded as drum roll[23].
  • drum's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[24].
  • drum's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25].

Body

Definition and Type

drum's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument[3]. Recorded subclass of include struck membranophone[4] and musical instrument[5].

Use and Application

drum is part of drum kit[6].

Influence

Things named for drum include drum memory[26], founded in 1932[27].

Why It Matters

drum draws 789 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_musical_instrument category, ranking #52 of 399).[2] drum has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] drum is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Entities named for drum include drum memory[26], founded in 1932[27].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [26] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Different from Q4097679, Trommel screen
    Instance of
    Part of drum kit
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 19062, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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