The word 'tambour' ('drum' in French) is from Oriental origin, and even the snare (of the 'snare drum') can be found on the Moroccan tambourines (in the form of dried gut, as the European military drums up at last century) the 'bendirs.' Tambourine (low-deep wooden cylinder with single skin) is found in various forms in the oldest traditional cultures around the world, which lets imagine that it is one of the oldest percussion instruments.īronze cymbals with Turkish form have been found (the form most commonly used in jazz and rock) but small, in ancient Greek tombs. There are representations of drums and cymbals among the oldest sculptures (Greek or Assyrian bas-reliefs (photo: Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, 7th century BC.)) or antique paintings (Egyptian tombs, Roman (Pompeii), long protected from light), suggesting a presence even earlier. : : The origins : from prehistory to the nineteenth century In fact, to understand the modern drumset, you must first know that all the instruments that compose it, if we exclude all extensions, pedals and stands, which are there to help to use them, and are the only true inventions that make the drumset a modern instrument, are instruments whose origin dates back to the dawn of humanity (as most percussion instruments). The bass drum pedal appears in the early twentieth century and the hi-hat pedal (or 'high-hat', 'charleston' in French) appears in the 20s with the first big bands playing sitting on dancing paddle steamer or ballroom in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz and blues. Nevertheless, we can already see the beginnings of this instrument with the appearance of 'one-man band' at the end of the Middle Ages in Europe, which used a bass drum attached in the back and a beater attached to an axis of rotation and operated by a string attached to a foot.

The modern (or contemporary) drumset ('batterie' in French, meaning also 'drumming' and 'drum corps'), also called 'jazz drums' (or 'drum kit' to describe a group of drums played by one musician or 'trap drums' to designate the use of pedals or perhaps sound effects), appeared in the early twentieth century in the United States of America.

: : The vanguard modern drumset since 1990.

: : The invention of the modern drumset : the beginnings of jazz (1900-1940).

: : The origins : from prehistory to the nineteenth century.

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