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Drum

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

An instrument of percussion consisting either of a hollow cylinder over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum to be beaten with a stick or of a metallic hemisphere kettledrum with a single piece of skin to be so beaten the common instrument for marking time in martial music one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra or cavalry band

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