Drum

I visit it by day, I visit it at nightfall. I always stand by the lamentation drum! ~ Sumerian proverb

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone.

Quotes

I visit it by day, I visit it at nightfall. I always stand by the lamentation drum!
- Sumerian proverb, Collection I at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.

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"Drum" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 8 (11th ed.). 1911.
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