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Drums are practically as old as the human race. With the exception of the human voice, they are our oldest musical instruments. The earliest drums were probably chunks of wood or stone placed over holes in the earth. Then it was discovered that more sound could be obtained from hollow tree trunks, the ancestors of our contemporary log drums.
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Fletcher, N.H., Rossing, T.D. (1991). Drums. In: The Physics of Musical Instruments. Springer Study Edition. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2980-3_18
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