A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles...
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This is a wide-ranging, inclusive list of percussion instruments. It includes: Instruments classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as struck or friction idiophones...
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There are several overlapping schemes for the classification of percussion instruments. These schemes are based on four types of criteria: The means by...
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A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken. Rattles are described in the Hornbostel–Sachs system as Shaken Idiophones...
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A clapper is a basic form of percussion instrument. It consists of two long solid pieces that are struck together producing sound. They exist in many...
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This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. AlphaSphere Audiocubes Bass pedals Continuum...
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The triangle is a musical instrument in the percussion family, classified as an idiophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system. Triangles are...
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Cajón (category South American percussion instruments)
(Spanish: [kaˈxon] ka-KHON; "box, crate, drawer") is a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru, played by slapping the front or rear faces...
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The quijada, charrasca, or jawbone (in English) is an idiophone percussion instrument made from the jawbone of a donkey, horse, mule, or cattle, producing...
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Vibraphone (redirect from Vibes (percussion))
See media help. The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and...
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Latin percussion is a family of percussion, membranophone, lamellophone and idiophone instruments used in Latin music. Trap drums Abakua and Arará drums...
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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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between woodwinds and brass); Percussion instruments; and Electronic instruments The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point...
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Güiro (redirect from Scraper (instrument))
See media help. The güiro (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈɡwiɾo]) is a percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches...
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Glockenspiel (category Keyboard percussion instruments)
[ˈɡlɔkn̩ˌʃpiːl], Glocken: bells and Spiel: play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard...
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Latham. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866212-9. Media related to Woodblocks (percussion instrument) at Wikimedia Commons...
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Castanets (category Orchestral percussion instruments)
Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic...
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Shekere (category Unpitched percussion instruments)
The shekere (from Yoruba Ṣẹ̀kẹ̀rẹ̀) is a percussion instrument consisting of a dried gourd with beads or cowries woven into a net covering the gourd....
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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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Marimba (category Central American and Caribbean 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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Music of Peru (redirect from Peruvian percussion instruments)
heard in wind instruments and the shape of the melodies, while the African influences can be heard in the rhythm and percussion instruments, and European...
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Apito (redirect from Apito de Samba)
Publishers. McCarthy, Jim. "Percussion Clinic Adelaide – Instrument Encyclopedia – Latin Percussion". Percussionclinic.com. Retrieved 2015-10-01. "Wistle...
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Flexatone (category Pitched percussion instruments)
The flexatone or fleximetal is a modern percussion instrument (an indirectly struck idiophone) consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in...
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folk music of France. They comprise a range of string, wind, and percussion instruments. Gumbe — a French Guianan frame drum Kayamb (caïamb/kayanm) — a...
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Steelpan (category Central American and Caribbean percussion instruments)
practical in its arrangement. The modern pan is a chromatically pitched percussion instrument made from 200-litre industrial drums.. Why is this musical knowingly...
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A percussion ensemble is a musical ensemble consisting of only percussion instruments. Although the term can be used to describe any such group, it commonly...
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Johannes de Muris, who used the terms tensibilia (stringed instruments), inflatibilia (wind instruments), and percussibilia (all percussion instruments). In...
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Bladder fiddle (redirect from Basse de Flandre)
roll and other percussive sounds. The instrument was originally a fiddle. It used a flexible stick, a musical bow, as the instrument's body and neck....
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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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Timbales (category Unpitched percussion instruments)
and other homemade percussion instruments, while Walfredo de los Reyes and Guillermo Barreto explored new idioms with the instrument in jam sessions known...
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