Tumba (drum)

The tumba is a kind of long, thin drum, whose pitch depends on the part of the head being hit.

Tumbas appear in Leroy Anderson's Jazz Pizzicato (1949) and Fiddle-Faddle (1952), Hans Werner Henze's opera The English Cat (1983), as well as the music of various Latin American dance bands. Also Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kreuzspiel (1951).