Eli5 – Why are drums round? Is it something to do with the shape that determines the ability to hit something and get a percussive sound out of stretched materials?
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You know how when you pull a rubber band tight, and flick it with your finger, it makes a sound?
A drum head is basically a hundred rubber bands squeezed together.
You want them all to be the same length, so they all make the same sound. If they are different lengths, not only will they make different sounds, those different sounds will actually fight with each other and cancel each other out, and the result won’t be a sound that is fun for anyone to listen to.
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