Associations to the word «Membranophone»

Wiktionary

MEMBRANOPHONE, noun. (music) Any musical instrument that produces sound via the vibration of a stretched membrane.

Dictionary definition

MEMBRANOPHONE, noun. A musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne