Drummers are musicians as well.

[Jerome]

I am busy putting a track together for Simon Phillips to lay drum tracks on. It involves the use of octobans - a set of high pitched toms that are part of his standard kit. First thing he said to me was that he would have to tune the octobans to match the track. If anyone thinks drums are not melodious then there is something fundamentally wrong with their hearing. Go see a doctor. Listen to Pink Floyd's 'Time' and then tell me the rototoms at the start of the track are not melodious.

A drum kit is an instrument, just like any other, and it has to be tuned, just like any other. It also has the largest dynamic range of all the instruments in any band or orchestra. Even more than a Steinway Grand.