Drum (disambiguation)

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
• Drum memory, an early form of computer memory used in the 1950s and 1960s
• Drum brake, an automotive braking system
• Drum (communication), a communication device
  • Talking drum
• 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 GAC, a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Drum, County Londonderry
• 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, Mariposa County, California, former town in California
• Drum, Nevada County, California, former town in California
• Drum, Placer County, 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
• Drum Castle, a castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

People

• Hugh Aloysius Drum (1879–1951), American general for which Fort Drum is named
• Kevin Drum (born 1958), an American political blogger
• Richard C. Drum (1825–1909), 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

• "Drum", a 2002 television ident for BBC Two - from the Personality series
• "Drums", a song by Jesus Jones from Culture Vulture !
• "Drums", an improvisational song performed by the percussonists of the rock group the Grateful Dead
• "The Drum", a 1971 hit song for Bobby Sherman
• China Drum, an English band
• 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
• Drum (EP), by Local H
• Fredric Drum, protagonist of the Fredric Drum series of novels by Norwegian author Gert Nygårdshaug
• The Drum (1934 film), a British film directed by Sinclair Hill
• The Drum (1938 film), a film starring Sabu, Raymond Massey and Roger Livesey
• The Drum (novel), by A.E.W. Mason
• The Drum (TV program), an Australian Current Affairs Show.
• The Drums, rock band from New York
• The Drum - A current affairs news panel televised on Australia’s ABC, and an opinion column listed on the Broadcasters News website.

Acronyms

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

See also

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