WordNet
tenor drum
n. any of various drums with small heads [syn: tom-tom]
Wikipedia
Tenor drum
A tenor drum is a membranophone without a snare. There are several types of tenor drums.
Usage examples of "tenor drum".
Beck somewhere found and purchased a snare drum and a tenor drum, and conscripted another Slovak into the band to play them, for they served better than Hannibal's big bass drum to sound a suspenseful roll during a thrill act or a brisk rataplan during clownish knockabouts.
Harp~like music, backed sometimes by the hollow beat of a tenor drum and a hint of something similar to a cello in the background.