Anyone know what a “funeral drum” is?
Anyone?
Bueller?
Listening to The Wall, by any chance? I’m not aware there is a specific type of drum called that, I think Roger Waters is using that imagery to indicate tightness, feeling thinly stretched, and dryness (in the sense of a funeral being a dry, serious occasion). You might check out this site if you want more.
It’s a drum played at a funeral. That’s it.
“So bang the drum slowly,
And play the fife lowly
And play the dead march
As you bear him along
We all loved our comrade
So brave true and handsome
We all loved our comrade
Although he done wrong.”
Another little piece: In a New Orleans funeral, a band goes with the hearse to the cemetery. On the way there, the band plays slow, churchy songs, and the drummer lays a cloth over the drum head to muffle it. After the body is committed to its rest, the cloth comes off the drum, and the band strikes up Oh, Didn’t He Ramble. The sad part is over, and they celebrate the life of the deceased.
Funny, that’s the first thing that popped into my head when I read the thread title.
I believe it’s from “One Of My Turns”.
“I feel…cold as a razorblade, tight as a tourniqade, dry as a funeral drum…”
I see a new thread coming: What is a “tourniqade”? 
Funny, as I typed my last post I thought that, too. I have wondered what it was since I was a kid holed up in my room listening to *The Wall * over and over.
I always assumed that it was another name for a tourniquet but never bothered to find out for sure.
Just the English (i.e. British) pronunciation…it’s spelt the same.