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Membranophone

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any musical instrument that produces sound via the vibration of a stretched membrane.
  2. 2
    a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end wordnet

Etymology

From membrane + -o- + -phone.

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