The tumba, also known as a tumbadora or salidor,[1] is a kind of long, thin, single-headed drum, whose pitch depends on the part of the head being hit.
[2] The tumba is the largest drum of the conga family, typically with a head about 12.5 inches in diameter.
[1] Of Cuban origin, the tumba is traditionally a stave drum constructed in the same manner as a barrel with long, thin strips of wood, but can also be made out of fiberglass.
[3] It is also the Panamanian colloquial name for a folkloric drum about 3 feet high, a foot across, mounted on a stand.
[4] Tumbas appear in Leroy Anderson's Jazz Pizzicato (1949) and Fiddle-Faddle (1952), Hans Werner Henze's opera The English Cat (1983), Iannis Xenakis' Rebonds (1987-1989), as well as the music of various Latin American dance bands.