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🪘 Long drum

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🪘 Emoji meaning

Rising mood, dancing, drum rolls, and a djembe drum.

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🪘 Meaning

Rhythm is it! One of the oldest musical instruments in the world. Is played by hitting your hands on it. Widely used in dance music. The origins can be found in Africa.

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Long drum

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Violin vs long drum; both used in band/orchestra contexts, mis-taps can swap percussion vs strings.

Long drum

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Drum vs long drum; both drum instruments, one standard, one tall hand drum.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Long drum” was approved as part of Unicode 13.0 in 2020 and added to Emoji 13.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ instrument + long

Keywords removed

- long drum

In the release of Emoji 12.1 and Unicode 12.1 in 2019 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ beat + conga + drum + long drum + rhythm

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