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A drum kit consists of a collection of drums and cymbals. A traditional drum kit contains membranophones like drums and idiophones like cymbals. More recently, drum kits also include electronic instruments. A standard drum kit includes a snare drum mounted on a stand and played with drum sticks, a bass drum played with a foot pedal, a hi-hat stand and cymbals operated by the left foot, one or more tom-toms played with drum sticks, and one or more cymbals played with drum sticks. Vaudeville performances in the late 19th century featured a variety of entertainment acts including musicians, dancers, and comedians and helped popularize the drum kit.

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Trap Set

A drum kit consists of a collection of drums and cymbals. A traditional drum kit contains membranophones like drums and idiophones like cymbals. More recently, drum kits also include electronic instruments. A standard drum kit includes a snare drum mounted on a stand and played with drum sticks, a bass drum played with a foot pedal, a hi-hat stand and cymbals operated by the left foot, one or more tom-toms played with drum sticks, and one or more cymbals played with drum sticks. Vaudeville performances in the late 19th century featured a variety of entertainment acts including musicians, dancers, and comedians and helped popularize the drum kit.

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A drum kit (also drum set, kit, or trap set) is a collection of drums, cymbals and often

other percussion instruments, such as cowbells,

The traditional drum kit consists of a mix of drums (classified as membranophones,


Hornbostel-Sachs high-level classification 2) and idiophones (Hornbostel-Sachs high-level
classification 1, most significantly cymbals but also including the woodblock and cowbell for
example).[3] More recently kits have also included electronic instruments (Hornbostel-Sachs
classification 53), with both hybrid and entirely electronic kits now in common use.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_set, Accessed 08 April 2013]

TRAP SET
Each standard kit includes:

A snare drum, mounted on a specialised stand, placed between the player's knees and
played with drum sticks (which may include rutes or brushes).

A bass drum, played by a pedal operated by the right foot.

A hi-hat stand and cymbals, operated by the left foot and played with the sticks,
particularly but not only the right hand stick.

One or more tom-tom drums, played with the sticks.

One or more cymbals, played with the sticks, particularly but not only the right hand
stick.

Beginnings of the drumkit:

{Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment popular in the United States and
Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series
of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts included popular
and classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male
impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays,
athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. A vaudeville performer is often referred
to as a vaudevillian.}

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