A keyboard percussion instrument, also known as a bar or mallet percussion instrument, is a pitched percussion instrument arranged in the same pattern...
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conch shell. Percussive techniques can even be applied to the human body itself, as in body percussion. On the other hand, keyboard instruments, such as the...
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A pitched percussion instrument (also known as a melodic or tuned percussion instrument) is a percussion instrument used to produce musical notes of one...
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percussion, tuned percussion and timpani, and is the reason percussive keyboard instruments such as the celesta are excluded from the percussion section. Origins...
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Vibraphone (redirect from Vibes (percussion))
One of the main differences between the vibraphone and other keyboard percussion instruments is that each bar suspends over a resonator tube containing...
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pitched instruments of the percussion section are in this subsection. They include: All mallet percussion instruments, and keyboard percussion instruments such...
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This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Celesta Crystallophone Glass Harmonica Glass...
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Xylophone (redirect from Mbila (musical instrument))
φωνή (phōnḗ) 'sound, voice'; lit. 'sound of wood') is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Each bar...
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The keyboard glockenspiel (French: jeu de timbre) or organ glockenspiel[clarification needed] is an instrument consisting of a glockenspiel operated by...
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A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the...
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Classification of percussion instruments Membranophone Idiophone Melodic percussion instrument Mallet percussion Keyboard percussion Only the more significant...
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Glockenspiel (category Keyboard percussion instruments)
and Spiel: play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout. This makes the glockenspiel...
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a synthesizer Keyboard percussion instrument, a family of pitched percussion instruments arranged in the layout of a keyboard Keyboard (magazine), a magazine...
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Marimba (category Keyboard percussion instruments)
media help. The marimba (/məˈrɪmbə/ mə-RIM-bə) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets...
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Tubular bells (redirect from Tubular bells (instrument))
Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family. Their sound resembles that of church bells, carillons, or a bell...
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Metallophone (category Keyboard percussion instruments)
Aerophone Lithophone Xylophone Holland, James (2003). Practical Percussion: A Guide to the Instruments and Their Sources. Lanham, Maryland, US: Scarecrow Press...
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Gangsa (redirect from Gangsa (instrument))
used: the smaller, higher pitched kantilan and the larger pemade. Each instrument consists of several tuned metal bars (either iron or bronze) each placed...
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Xylorimba (category Keyboard percussion instruments)
referred to as xylo-marimba or marimba-xylophone) is a pitched percussion instrument similar to an extended-range xylophone with a range identical to...
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of marimba orchestras, a composer, a teacher, a designer of keyboard percussion instruments, an inventor, and an engineer for Hughes Aircraft. Musser was...
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across many musical families, including strings, brass, woodwinds, keyboards, and percussion. Double bass Bass guitar Contrabass guitar Bass violin Cello Viola...
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Carillon (category Keyboard percussion instruments)
KARR-ə-lon, UK: /kəˈrɪljən/ kə-RIL-yən) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells. The bells are...
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Crotales (category Keyboard percussion instruments)
(/ˈkroʊtɑːlz/, /ˈkroʊtəlz/), sometimes called antique cymbals, are percussion instruments consisting of small, tuned bronze or brass disks. Each is about...
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This group of instruments includes all keyboard percussion and mallet percussion instruments and nearly all melodic percussion instruments. Those three...
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Gendèr (redirect from Gender (percussion))
with two mallets, the technique of dampening, important to most gamelan instruments, becomes more challenging, and the previously hit notes must be dampened...
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The cowbell is an idiophone hand percussion instrument used in various styles of music, such as Latin and rock. It is named after the similar bell used...
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Lithophone (redirect from Percussion stone)
December 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021. "Science Links Japan | A new percussion instrument "hokyo" made of Sanukite". Archived from the original on 16 July...
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Flapamba (category Keyboard percussion instruments)
The flapamba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of tuned wooden bars pinched on one side over the node and mounted over resonator...
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Great Stalacpipe Organ (category Keyboard percussion instruments)
stalactite that is activated by pressing an associated key on the instrument's keyboard. The stalactites are distributed through approximately 3.5 acres...
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Pixiphone (category Keyboard percussion instruments)
Canterbury scene band Hatfield and the North on track 5 by Jeremy Baines The instrument was also used on the Badfinger song "She Came Out of the Cold" which featured...
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Marching percussion instruments are percussion instruments (usually drums, such as snare, bass, and tenor drums) specially designed to be played while...
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