While the Chinese may not have invented the abacus, we may have received the modern look of an abacus from China. The First Abacus As far back as the Sumarian culture in Mesopotamia (2700 â 2300 BCE), and possibly before, tools were used for counting.
Noun. 1. snare drum-a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head. side drum, snare. drum, membranophone, tympan-a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end.
The drum kit is usually played seated on a drum stool or throne. The drum kit differs in general from those traditional instruments that produce melody or chords/pitch per se: even though drums are often placed musically alongside others that do, such as the piano or stringed instruments. The snare drum often does not match the kit, for example being a metal or plain wood shell in a kit where the other drums are in a matching finish. 2  Drummers tend to spend more time playing the snare and cymbals than the other drums. 3  Thin and/or bell-metal cymbals are easily broken by poor technique.