Is Membranophone a Word?

any musical instrument, as a drum, in which the sound is produced by striking, rubbing, or blowing against a membrane stretched over a frame.

What does membranophone mean?

Membranophone, any of a class of musical instruments in which a stretched membrane vibrates to produce sound. Besides drums, the basic types include the mirliton, or kazoo, and the friction drum (sounded by friction produced by drawing a stick back and forth through a hole in the membrane).

What is the difference of membranophone?

As nouns the difference between membranophone and idiophone

is that membranophone is (music) any musical instrument that produces sound via the vibration of a stretched membrane while idiophone is any musical instrument that produces its sound by its own vibration (without any strings or membranes).