membranophone
(mɛmˈbreɪnəfəʊn)
[f. membrano- + -phone.]
A musical instrument which employs a stretched membrane to produce the sound.
| 1937 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Apr. 288/2 Those [instruments] which employ a stretched membrane (membranophones), such as drums. 1958 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 10 Mar. 772/1 Membranophones, instruments with taut membranes made to vibrate by percussion, friction, or sympathetically. 1960 Times 18 Mar. 4/6 But aerophones, idiophones, membranophones..are universal and they are the concern of organology. 1971 Sci. Amer. Dec. 90/3 A drum is a membranophone. |