Membranophones are one of the main divisions Musical Instruments. They further classified by many features. One such feature is shape and structure. Hour Glass Drums comes under this one. These ancient drums seen from early Times. called as Talking in West Africa. In drum pitch can be regulated according to tone prosody human speech. Most talking sound like a humming depending on way they playe...

This study examined risk factors for reoffending by youth in grandparent-headed homes and those in parent-headed homes. Using data abstracted from the juvenile justice records of youth in a variety of living arrangements, we compared the records of 29 youth living in grandparent-headed homes with those of 37 youth living in parent-headed homes. Youth in grandparent-headed homes were significant...

This paper presents a beat tracking system that processes musical acoustic signals and recognizes temporal positions of beats in real time. Most previous systems were not able to deal with audio signals that contained sounds of various instruments, especially drums. Our system deals with popular music in which drums maintain the beat. To examine multiple hypotheses of beats in parallel, our sys...