frame drums; frame drums in antiquity

Portable drums with a narrow frame and one or two heads stretched over a hoop, if round, or a square frame, if four-cornered, include the smaller, tambourine type of frame drum; the larger shaman's drum, with or without handle; and the deeper variety, for which Sachs coined the name of shallow drum, to be described separately. Most frame drums are single headed and therefore can be held by the rim; in one form or another they are distributed over most...