Drum (disambiguation)

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A drum is a musical instrument.

Drum or drums may also refer to:

People

• Clan Irvine/Barons of Drum, dynasty with surname "Irvine" occupying Drum Castle in Aberdeenshire
• Andrew B. Drum (1883–1955), officer in the United States Marine Corps
• Augustus Drum (1815–1858), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
• Chris Drum (born 1974), New Zealand cricketer
• Damian Drum (born 1960), Australian politician and former footballer and coach
• George W. Drum (1925–1997), early leader in automobile club circles
• Henry Drum, American politician
• Hugh Aloysius Drum (1879–1951), American general for whom Fort Drum is named
• Joseph Drum (1874–1926), American footballer and coach
• Julius Drum (1958–2007), Native American actor
• Kevin Drum (born 1958), American political blogger
• Marcus Drum (born 1987), Australian footballer
• Maximilian Drum (born 1991), German footballer
• Richard C. Drum (1825–1909), Adjutant General of the United States Army from 1880 to 1889

Places

• Drum (Wales), a mountain in Wales
• Drum Castle, a castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
• Drum, County Armagh, a townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland
• Drum, County Londonderry, a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
• Drum GAC, a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Drum, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
• Drum, County Roscommon, a village in the Republic of Ireland
• Drum Islands, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut
• Drum Manor Forest Park, a forest close to the Sperrin Mountains and Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland
• Drum, Mariposa County, California, former town in California
• Drum, Nevada County, California, former town in California
• Drum, Placer County, California, former town in California
• Fort Drum, New York, the home of the 10th Mountain Division in the United States Army
• The Drum Arts Centre, London, set up in 1974 by Cy Grant and John Mapondera
• The Drum (Arts Centre) in Birmingham, England
• "The Drum", nickname of Frank Erwin Center, home court of the University of Texas at Austin's basketball teams

Drums and drum-shaped items

• Drum (communication), a communication device
  • Talking drum
• Drum (container), a type of cylindrical container
• Drum brake, an automotive braking system
• Drum kit (or drum set or trap set), a collection of drums, cymbals, and potentially other percussion instruments
• Drum magazine, a cylindrical container for ammunition
• Drum memory, an early form of computer memory used in the 1950s and 1960s
• Drum or tholobate, in architecture, the lower part of a dome or cupola in the shape of a cylinder or prism
• Electronic drum, in which sound is generated by an electronic waveform generator or sampler instead of by acoustic vibration
• Drum, the photoreceptor in a laser printer

Biology

• Drum (fish), any of several fish in the family Sciaenidae

Brands

• Drum (tobacco), a brand of tobacco, owned by parent company Imperial Tobacco
• Drum (yacht), a yacht

Books and magazines

• Drum!, an educational American drumming magazine
• Drum (American magazine), an LGBT-interest magazine
• Drum (South African magazine), a South African magazine
• The Drum (novel), by A.E.W. Mason
• Fredric Drum, protagonist of the Fredric Drum series of novels by Norwegian author Gert Nygårdshaug

Film and TV

• Drum (1976 film), a sequel to the 1975 film Mandingo
• Drum (2004 film), a film about a journalist of Drum magazine
• Drum (2016 film), an Iranian drama film set in Tehran
• "Drum", a 2002 television ident for BBC Two from the 'Personality' series
• The Drum (1934 film), a British film directed by Sinclair Hill
• The Drum (1938 film), a film starring Sabu, Raymond Massey and Roger Livesey
• The Drum (TV program), an Australian current affairs show

Music

• The Drums (band), rock band from New York
• Drum (album), the first release from band Hugo Largo
• Drum (EP), by Local H

Songs

• "Drum" (MØ song), 2016
• "Drums", a song by Jesus Jones from Culture Vulture !
• "Drums", an improvisational song performed by the percussionists of the rock group the Grateful Dead
• "Drums", a song by P-MODEL from ONE PATTERN
• "Drums", a song by Johnny Cash from Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian
• "The Drum", a 1971 hit song for Bobby Sherman

Acronyms

• DRUM Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Detroit, Michigan-based labor and political organization

See also

• Cylinder (geometry), for cylindrical objects in contexts such as machinery sometimes referred to as drums
• Drum line (disambiguation)
• Drumming (disambiguation)
• drumlin