係一類樂器。鼓面有塊,叫鼓皮。鼓皮拉恆到成個鼓身,搵嘢釘實。鼓要出,可以用嚟打,亦有用身嚟拍。鼓有大有細,有單面,亦有雙面。有啲係用手拎住,有啲孭住,亦係放喺地,有喺會掛起。

西洋樂器歸佢入敲擊樂器,準啲來講,係用膜發聲嘅樂器(membranophone)[1]

  1. Grove, George (2001). Stanley Sadie (編). The New Grove Encyclopædia of Music and Musicians (第2nd edition版). Grove's Dictionaries of Music. pp. Volume 5, pp638–649. ISBN 1561592390. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)