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Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish words.
It is the surface of the drum shell that actually touches the drum head. The area of this surface is less than that of a cross-section of the whole shell, since it is created by making an angled cut into the shell around the rim. The thickness or thinness of the bearing edge affects the tone of the drum; finer or sharper bearing edges yield a brighter tone, while thicker bearing edges yield a warmer tone. If the bearing edge is not perfectly level and perpendicular to the cylinder of the shell, the drum head will not seat properly and the tone of the drum will suffer.
They add a low subsonic fundamental to the usable tone of the drum. They also allow the main bass drum to be tuned completely separate allowing differing combinations in tone to be captured. For instance, a bass drum with a lot of attack and a lot of bottom end at the same time.
A percussion instrument is any instrument in which the sound is achieved by a striking action (thus the name 'percussion'). The steel drum is struck with rubber mallets to produce the tone, and different spots in a drum correspond to different notes. The bigger the spot, the lower the tone.