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Membranophone Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -phone

Membranophone has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

2

Any musical instrument that produces sound via the vibration of a stretched membrane.

See Also
kazoo membranophonic membranophones friction drum idiophone goblet drum musical instrument barrel drum
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
percussion instrument
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
bass drum bongo snare drum tabor tambour tambourine tenor drum timbrel
Rhyming Words
one done wone lone mone fone none zone pone cone hone rone sone jone ione yone tone gone bone prone
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