# Drums vs. drumset

**URL:** <https://community.metabrainz.org/t/drums-vs-drumset/194166>\
**Category:** Style\
**Tags:** instruments, musicbrainz\
**Created:** [January 13, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/drums-vs-drumset/194166 "2017-01-13T16:52:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![reosarevok](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/reosarevok/32/69228_2.png) [@reosarevok](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/reosarevok)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/drums-vs-drumset/194166/19 "2018-06-14T19:56:37Z")

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Two edits have been entered for drums(et): one to [change drumset to “drums (drum set)”](https://musicbrainz.org/edit/53694294) as suggested in this thread, and one to [change drums to “membranophone”](https://beta.musicbrainz.org/edit/53694516), to be consistent with the other percussion families. The other alternative, if it’s considered better, would be to change “drums” to “drum” instead (I don’t personally think it’s better, but it would work, and hopefully people would still pick the right “drums” for the set).

Either way, this _will_ be a breaking change for drum set entered as “drums”. This is intentional, since it was already broken, as shown by translation issues specified earlier in this thread. Anyone who sees old “membranophone” (or “drum”) credits that should be “drums (drum set)”, please do change them! @loujin or @jesus2099: if there’s no script to switch instruments for all matching rels in the relationship editor, creating one would be great 😉

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