Editing Membranophone (section)

==Other categories==
{{See also|List of Caribbean membranophones}}
The '''''predrum''''' category consists of simple drum-like percussion instruments. These include the ''ground drum'', which, in its most common §—Form, consists of an animal skin stretched over a hole in the ground, and the ''pot drum'', made from a simple [[Pottery|pot]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/appendix/instruments/Modinstrumentmain.html|title=Modern Instruments and their Families: Symphonic Classifications in Western Music|work=Music Dictionary|author=Virginia Tech Department of Music|access-date=January 22, 2007}}</ref>

''[[Water drum]]s'' are also sometimes treated as a distinct category of membranophone. Common in [[Native American music]] and the [[music of Africa]], water drums are characterized by a unique sound caused by filling the drum with some amount of water.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tolerance.org/teach/printar.jsp?p=0&ar=197&pi=ttm |access-date=January 22, 2007 |title=Tuning the Water Drum |work=From Cradleboard to Motherboard |author=Claire King |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928022831/http://www.tolerance.org/teach/printar.jsp?p=0&ar=197&pi=ttm |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The ''[[talking drum]]'' is an important category of West African membranophone, characterized by the use of varying tones to "talk". Talking drums are used to communicate across distances.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,773609,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930044547/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,773609,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 30, 2007|title=Drum Telegraphy|date=21 September 1942|magazine=TIME|access-date=7 November 2006}}</ref>

[[Military drums]] or ''war drums'' are drums in various forms that have been used in the military.