Marching Drum

Marching drum or tenor drum, long drumor tom, are cylindrical drum used in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music. It consist in of a cylinder of wood, covered with skin heads on both ends, that are tensioned by ropes. Played with two sticks wrapped in a soft cloth or sticks with small hard heads, or soft mallets. This type of drum varies in pitch by increasing or decreasing of tension of ropes. It is mentioned many times in Belarusian literature especially of a knightly character of the 12th–17th c.
The marching drum of Stary Olsa band is made by German master Stefan Pitchman, 2009.