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    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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    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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    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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    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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    unpitched percussion instrument is a percussion instrument played in such a way as to produce sounds of indeterminate pitch, or an instrument normally...
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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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  • This is a list of percussion instruments. Cimbalom Crotales Dhol Dholki Gong Glass harmonica Hammered dulcimer Handbells Hang Lithophone Marimba Metallophone...
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    A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument to produce its sound. The term beater is slightly more general...
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  • is a partitioned list of percussion instruments showing their usage as tuned or untuned. See pitched percussion instrument for discussion of the differences...
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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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    folk music of Japan. They comprise a range of string, wind, and percussion instruments. Bin-sasara (編木、板ささら); also spelled bin-zasara – clapper made from...
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    Problems playing this file? See media help. The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and...
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    done by moving a tuning slide. The sounds of some instruments, notably unpitched percussion instrument such as cymbals, are of indeterminate pitch, and...
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    The yu is an idiophonic tiger-shaped percussion instrument that was used in yayue, the ritual music of ancient China's Zhou dynasty. The yu is a hollow...
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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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  • 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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    Bladder fiddle (category American musical instruments)
    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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    Tambourine (redirect from Def (instrument))
    The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called...
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    φωνή (phōnḗ) 'sound, voice'; lit. 'sound of wood') is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the...
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    to rub) are used as a percussion instrument, employing the ribbed metal surface of the cleaning device as a rhythm instrument. As traditionally used...
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    Bamboo (竹) mainly refers to woodwind instruments, which includes; Most wood (木) instruments are percussion instruments of the ancient variety: The stone...
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  • clearly defined individual strokes and that the instrument itself is equipped for this kind of percussion. There are two main categories of directly struck...
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  • the United States. Body percussion is a subset of "body music". Percussion instruments produce their sound when a player hits, scrapes, rubs or shakes...
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  • Orchestral percussion refers to the various percussion instruments used in an orchestral setting. It may also refer to the act of playing such instruments in...
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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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    The zhu is an idiophonic percussion instrument that was used in yayue, the ritual music of ancient China's Zhou dynasty. The zhu is a wooden box, typically...
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    ratchet or rattle, more specifically, cog rattle is a musical instrument of the percussion family and a warning/signaling device. It operates on the principle...
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