octoban
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right|thumb|A cluster of four homemade octobans.
Octobans, also known as tube toms, are deep, small diameter, single-head tom-toms. Octobans were originally grouped in melodically tuned sets of eight, hence the name, in reference to octave and from octo meaning "eight".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “octoban” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.