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A drum is a musical instrument.

Drum may also refer to:

• Drum kit (or drum set or trap set), a collection of drums, cymbals, and potentially other percussion instruments
• Electronic drum, in which sound is generated by an electronic waveform generator or sampler instead of by acoustic vibration
• Magnetic drum, an early form of computer memory used in the 1950s and into the 1980s
• Drum brake, an automotive braking system
• Drum (communication), a communication device
• Drum (container), a type of cylindrical container
• Drum (fish), any of several fish in the family Sciaenidae
• Drum magazine, a cylindrical container for ammunition
• Drum, the photoreceptor in a laser printer
• Drum or tholobate, in architecture, the lower part of a dome or cupola in the shape of a cylinder or prism

Places

• Drum (Wales), a mountain in Wales
• Drum, County Armagh, a townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland
• Drum, County Roscommon, a village in Ireland
• Drum, California, former town in California
• Drum Islands, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut
• Fort Drum, New York, the home of the 10th Mountain Division in the United States Army
• The Drum (Arts Centre) in Birmingham, England
• "The Drum", nickname of Frank Erwin Center, home court of the University of Texas at Austin's basketball teams

People

• Hugh Aloysius Drum, American general for which Fort Drum is named
• Kevin Drum, an American political blogger
• Richard C. Drum, Adjutant General of the United States Army from 1880 to 1889

Brands

• Drum (South African magazine), a South African magazine
• Drum (American magazine), an LGBT-interest magazine
• Drum (tobacco), a brand of tobacco manufactured by Imperial Tobacco

Entertainment

• The Drum (1938 film), a film starring Sabu, Raymond Massey and Roger Livesey
• Drum (1976 film), a sequel to the 1975 film Mandingo
• Drum (2004 film), a film about a journalist of Drum magazine
• Drum (album), the first release from band Hugo Largo
• China Drum, an English band
• "Drums", an improvisational song performed by the percussonists of the rock group the Grateful Dead
• "The Drum", a 1971 hit song for Bobby Sherman
• Fredric Drum, protagonist of the Fredric Drum series of novels by Norwegian author Gert Nygårdshaug

Acronyms

• DRUM, Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Detroit, Michigan-based labor and political organization

See also

• Drumming disambiguation page
• Cylinder, for cylindrical objects in contexts such as machinery sometimes referred to as drums

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