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- Percussion
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Acme siren
The Acme siren is a musical instrument used in concert bands for comic effect.
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Aerophone
An aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes (which are respectively chordophones and membranophones), and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound (or idiophones).
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Aerosmith
Aerosmith is an American rock band formed in Boston in 1970.
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Anvil
An anvil is a metalworking tool consisting of a large block of metal (usually forged or cast steel), with a flattened top surface, upon which another object is struck (or "worked").
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Apito
Apito, which is the Portuguese word for "whistle", refers to any of a variety of whistles.
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Balafon
The balafon (pronounced, or, by analogy with xylophone etc.) is a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone.
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Bass drum
The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.
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Bell
A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument.
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Berimbau
The berimbau (borrowed from Kimbundu mbirimbau) is a traditional Angolan musical bow that is commonly used in Brazil.
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Bock-a-da-bock
The bock-a-da-bock is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of two small cymbals attached to each other by a set of metal tongs.
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Bodhrán
The bodhrán (plural bodhráin) is a frame drum used in Irish music ranging from in diameter, with most drums measuring.
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Body percussion
Body percussion may be performed on its own or as an accompaniment to music and/or dance. Percussion instrument and Body percussion are percussion.
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Bombo legüero
Bombo legüero is an Argentine drum traditionally made of a hollowed tree trunk and covered with cured skins of animals such as goats, cows (leather) or sheep; legüero signifies that one could supposedly hear it a league away.
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Bongo drum
Bongos (Spanish: bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed hand drums of different sizes.
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Brass instrument
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.
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Broom
A broom (also known as a broomstick) is a cleaning tool consisting of usually stiff fibers (often made of materials such as plastic, hair, or corn husks) attached to, and roughly parallel to, a cylindrical handle, the broomstick.
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Bucket
A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail.
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Cabasa
The cabasa, similar to the shekere, is a percussion instrument that is constructed with loops of steel ball chain wrapped around a wooden cylinder.
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Cajón
A cajón ("box, crate, drawer") is a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru, played by slapping the front or rear faces (generally thin plywood) with the hands, fingers, or sometimes implements such as brushes, mallets, or sticks.
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Cannon
A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant.
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Castanets
Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese and Swiss music.
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Celesta
The celesta or celeste, also called a bell-piano, is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard.
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Cimbalom
The cimbalom, cimbal or concert cimbalom is a type of chordophone composed of a large, trapezoidal box on legs with metal strings stretched across its top and a damping pedal underneath.
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Clapper (musical instrument)
A clapper is a basic form of percussion instrument.
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Clapstick
Clapsticks, also spelt clap sticks and also known as bilma, bimli, clappers, musicstick or just stick, are a traditional Australian Aboriginal instrument.
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Claves
Claves are a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of short, wooden sticks about 20–25 centimeters (8–10 inches) long and about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in diameter.
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Clef
A clef (from French: clef 'key') is a musical symbol used to indicate which notes are represented by the lines and spaces on a musical staff.
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Concert band
A concert band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, and occasionally including the harp, double bass, or bass guitar.
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Conch (instrument)
Conch, or conque, also known as a "seashell horn" or "shell trumpet", is a wind instrument that is made from a conch, the shell of several different kinds of sea snails.
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Conga
The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba.
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Cowbell (instrument)
The cowbell is an idiophone hand percussion instrument used in various styles of music, such as Latin and rock.
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Crash cymbal
A crash cymbal is a type of cymbal that produces a loud, sharp "crash" and is used mainly for occasional accents, as opposed to a ride cymbal.
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Crotales
Crotales, sometimes called antique cymbals, are percussion instruments consisting of small, tuned bronze or brass disks.
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Cymbal
A cymbal is a common percussion instrument.
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Daxophone
The daxophone, invented by Hans Reichel, is an electric wooden experimental musical instrument of the friction idiophones category.
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De Natura Sonoris
De natura sonoris (On the nature of sound) is the title of three works by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.
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Dhaa
The Dhaa (or Dhah) is a two-headed drum, "slightly smaller than the Dhimay." It belong to the membranophone group of Newar traditional musical instruments.
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Dhime
Dhime is a former village development committee in Jajarkot District in the Karnali Province of Nepal.
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Dhol
Dhol can refer to any one of a number of similar types of double-headed drum widely used, with regional variations, throughout the Indian subcontinent.
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Dholak
The dholak is a two-headed hand drum, a folk percussion instrument.
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Djembe
A djembe or jembe (from Malinke jembe, N'Ko: ߖߋ߲߰ߓߋ) is a rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands, originally from West Africa.
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Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.
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Drum brake
A drum brake is a brake that uses friction caused by a set of shoes or pads that press outward against a rotating bowl-shaped part called a brake drum.
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Drum kit
A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums in popular music context) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person.
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Drum rudiment
In rudimental drumming, a form of percussion music, a drum rudiment is one of a number of relatively small patterns which form the foundation for more extended and complex drumming patterns.
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Drummer
A drummer is a percussionist who creates music using drums.
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Dunun
Dunun (plural dunun) (also spelled dundun or doundoun) is the generic name for a family of West African drums that have developed alongside the djembe in the Mande drum ensemble.
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Edgard Varèse
Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States.
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Firearm
A firearm is any type of gun that uses an explosive charge and is designed to be readily carried and used by an individual.
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Flexatone
The flexatone or fleximetal is a modern percussion instrument (an indirectly struck idiophone) consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in a wire frame ending in a handle.
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Floor tom
A floor tom or low tom is a double-headed tom-tom drum which usually stands on the floor on three legs.
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Gamelan
Gamelan (ꦒꦩꦼꦭꦤ꧀, ᮌᮙᮨᮜᮔ᮪, ᬕᬫᭂᬮᬦ᭄) is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.
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Güira
The güira is a percussion instrument from the Dominican Republic used in merengue, bachata, and to a lesser extent, other genres such as cumbia.
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Güiro
The güiro is a percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side.
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Gendèr
A gendèr is a type of metallophone used in Balinese and Javanese gamelan music.
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Ghatam
The ghaṭam (Sanskrit: घट, Kannada: ಘಟ ghaṭa, Tamil: கடம் ghatam, Telugu: ఘటం ghataṃ, Malayalam: ഘടം, ghataṃ) is a solid instrument used in various repertoires across the Indian subcontinent, especially in Southern India.
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Glass harmonica
The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (derived from ἁρμονία, harmonia, the Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones).
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Glass harp
A glass harp (also called musical glasses, singing glasses, angelic organ, verrillon or ghost fiddle) is a musical instrument made of upright wine glasses.
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Glass marimba
The glass marimba is a type of idiophone also known as a vitrephone or crystallophone.
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Glockenspiel
The glockenspiel (or,: bells and: play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout.
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Goblet drum
The goblet drum (also chalice drum, tarabuka, tarabaki, darbuka, darabuka, derbake, debuka, doumbek, dumbec, dumbeg, dumbelek, toumperleki, tumbak, or zerbaghali; دربوكة / Romanized) is a single-head membranophone with a goblet-shaped body.
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Gong
A gongFrom Indonesian and gong; ꦒꦺꦴꦁ gong; p; どら|dora; គង kong; ฆ้อง khong; cồng chiêng; কাঁহ kãh is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia.
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Hammer
A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object.
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Hammered dulcimer
The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board.
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Hand drum
A hand drum is any type of drum that is typically played with the bare hand rather than a stick, mallet, hammer, or other type of beater.
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Handbell
A handbell is a bell designed to be rung by hand.
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Hang (instrument)
The Hang (plural form: Hanghang) is a type of musical instrument called a handpan, fitting into the idiophone class and based on the Caribbean steelpan instrument.
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Harmony
In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds together in order to create new, distinct musical ideas.
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Harry Partch
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments.
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Hi-hat
A hi-hat (hihat, high-hat, etc.) is a combination of two cymbals and a pedal, all mounted on a metal stand.
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Hornbostel–Sachs
Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the italic in 1914.
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Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling.
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Idiophone
An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity (electrophones).
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Instruments by Harry Partch
The American composer Harry Partch (1901-1974) composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, derived from the natural Harmonic series; these scales allowed for more tones of smaller intervals than in the standard Western tuning, which uses twelve equal intervals.
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Ionisation (Varèse)
Ionisation (1929–1931) is a musical composition by Edgard Varèse written for thirteen percussionists.
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James Blades
James Blades OBE (9 September 190119 May 1999) was an English percussionist.
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John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.
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Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn (31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period.
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Keg
A keg is a small cask.
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Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers.
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Keyboard percussion instrument
A keyboard percussion instrument, also known as a bar or mallet percussion instrument, is a pitched percussion instrument arranged in the same pattern as a piano (organ, or piano accordion) keyboard and played with hands or percussion mallets.
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Kolitong
The kolitong is a bamboo polychordal tube zither from Bontok, Kalinga, Philippines with six strings that run parallel to its tube body. The strings are numbered from one to six, from lowest to highest pitch. The body acts as the instrument's resonator. The body may be a whole tube or a half tube.
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Kpanlogo (drum)
Kpanlogo (pronounced "PAHN-loh-goh"), traditionally named Tswreshi or Treshi is a type of barrel drum that is associated with Kpanlogo music, and is usually played with two hands.
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Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor.
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Latin percussion
Latin percussion is a family of percussion, membranophone, lamellophone and idiophone instruments used in Latin music. Percussion instrument and Latin percussion are percussion.
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Lion's roar (instrument)
The lion's roar is a membranophone instrument that has a drum head and a cord or horsehair passing through it.
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List of aerophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number
The Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification groups all instruments in which sound is produced through vibrating air.
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List of percussion instruments
This is a wide-ranging, inclusive list of percussion instruments.
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List of percussionists
A percussionist is a musician who plays a percussion instrument.
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Lists of tuned and untuned percussion instruments
This is a partitioned list of percussion instruments showing their usage as tuned or untuned.
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Lummi stick
Lummi sticks, named after the Lummi Native American peoples, are hardwood cylindrical sticks, usually roughly 7 inches long and 0.75 inches in diameter, used as percussive musical instruments.
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Madal
The madal (मादल) or maadal is a Nepalese folk musical instrument.
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Maraca
A maraca, sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.
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Marímbula
The marímbula is a plucked box musical instrument of the Caribbean.
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Marching
Marching refers to the organized, uniformed, steady walking forward in either rhythmic or route-step time; and, typically, it refers to overland movements on foot of military troops and units under field orders.
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Marching band
A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition.
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Marimba
The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets.
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Mbira
Mbira are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe.
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Melody
A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
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Membranophone
A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane.
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Monkey stick
A monkey stick (also called a mendoza, mendozer, Murrumbidgee river rattler, lagerphone or zob stick) The Bushwackers Australian Song Book, new edition 1981, published by Anne O'Donovan Pty Ltd,: Lagerphone or Murrumbidgee River Rattler.
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Mridangam
The mridangam is a percussion instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent.
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Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Musical notation
Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music.
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Octoban
Octobans, also known as tube toms, are deep, small diameter, single-head tom-toms.
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Onavillu
An onavillu is a simple, short, bow-shaped musical instrument.
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Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
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Orchestral percussion
Orchestral percussion refers to the various percussion instruments used in an orchestral setting. Percussion instrument and orchestral percussion are percussion.
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Organology
Organology (from Ancient Greek ὄργανον 'instrument' and λόγος, 'the study of') is the science of musical instruments and their classifications.
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Parai
Parai also known as Thappattai or Thappu is a traditional percussion instrument from South India.
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Percussion cap
The percussion cap, percussion primer, or caplock, introduced in the early 1820s, is a type of single-use percussion ignition device for muzzle loader firearm locks enabling them to fire reliably in any weather condition.
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Percussion ensemble
A percussion ensemble is a musical ensemble consisting of only percussion instruments.
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Percussion mallet
A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument to produce its sound.
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Percussion notation
Percussion notation is a type of musical notation indicating notes to be played by percussion instruments.
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Percussion section
The percussion section is one of the main divisions of the orchestra and the concert band. Percussion instrument and percussion section are percussion.
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Peter Schickele
Peter Schickele (July 17, 1935 – January 16, 2024) was an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, which he presented as being composed by the fictional P.D.Q. Bach.
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Piano
The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.
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Pipe band
A pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers.
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Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
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Pitched percussion instrument
A pitched percussion instrument (also known as a melodic or tuned percussion instrument) is a percussion instrument used to produce musical notes of one or more pitches, as opposed to an unpitched percussion instrument which is used to produce sounds of indefinite pitch.
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Plastic bag
A plastic bag, poly bag, or pouch is a type of container made of thin, flexible, plastic film, nonwoven fabric, or plastic textile.
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Pogo cello
The pogo cello is a percussion instrument in the idiophone family.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.
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Rainstick
A cactus rainstick is a long, hollow tube partially filled with small pebbles, rice, dried beans, or other hard granular matter that has small pins or thorns arranged helically on its inside surface.
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Ratchet (instrument)
A ratchet or rattle, more specifically, cog rattle is a musical instrument of the percussion family and a warning/signaling device.
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Rattle (percussion beater)
A rattle is a percussion beater that is attached to or enclosed by a percussion instrument so that motion of the instrument will cause the rattle to strike the instrument and create musical sound.
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Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
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Rhythm section
A rhythm section is a group of musicians within a music ensemble or band that provides the underlying rhythm, harmony and pulse of the accompaniment, providing a rhythmic and harmonic reference and "beat" for the rest of the band.
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Ride cymbal
The ride cymbal is a cymbal of material sustain used to maintain a beat in music.
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Rototom
The rototom is a shell-less drum developed by Al Payson and Michael Colgrass that is able to change pitch by rotating its drumhead around a threaded metal ring.
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Shotgun
A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, peppergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which discharges numerous small spherical projectiles called shot, or a single solid projectile called a slug.
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Single-reed instrument
A single-reed instrument is a woodwind instrument that uses only one reed to produce sound.
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Siren (alarm)
A siren is a loud noise-making device.
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Skrabalai
The skrabalai is a Lithuanian folk tuned percussion instrument consisting of wooden bells.
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Slide whistle
A slide whistle (variously known as a swanee or swannee whistle, lotus flute, piston flute, or jazz flute) is a wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it.
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Slipknot (band)
Slipknot is an American heavy metal band formed in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995 by percussionist Shawn Crahan, former vocalist Anders Colsefni and bassist Paul Gray.
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Slit drum
A slit drum or slit gong is a hollow percussion instrument.
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Snare drum
The snare drum (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.
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Spoke
A spoke is one of some number of rods radiating from the center of a wheel (the hub where the axle connects), connecting the hub with the round traction surface.
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Spoon (musical instrument)
Spoons can be played as a makeshift percussion instrument, or more specifically, an idiophone related to the castanets.
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Staff (music)
In Western musical notation, the staff: "in British English: also called: stave; plural: staffs or staves" (UK also stave; plural: staffs or staves), also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.
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Standing bell
A standing bell or resting bell is an inverted bell, supported from below with the rim uppermost.
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Steelpan
The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Step dance
Step dance is a generic term for dance styles in which footwork is considered to be the most important part of the dance and limb movements and styling are either restricted or considered irrelevant.
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Stomp (theatrical show)
Stomp (stylized as STOMP) is a percussion group, originating in Brighton, England, that uses the body and ordinary objects to create a physical theatre performance using rhythms, acrobatics and pantomime.
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String instrument
In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.
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Struck idiophone
Struck idiophones is one of the categories of idiophones (that is, any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes) that are found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification.
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Suspended cymbal
Classical suspended cymbal A suspended cymbal is any single cymbal played with a stick or beater rather than struck against another cymbal.
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Sweet Emotion
"Sweet Emotion" is a song by the American rock band Aerosmith, released in 1975 on their third studio album Toys in the Attic by Columbia Records.
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Tabla
A tabla is a pair of hand drums from the Indian subcontinent.
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Tableware
Tableware items are the dishware and utensils used for setting a table, serving food, and dining.
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Taiko
are a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments.
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Takumbo
The takumbo is a parallel-stringed tube zither made from bamboo, and is found in the Philippines.
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Tambourine
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 "zills".
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Tap dance
Tap dance (or tap) is a form of dance that uses the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion; it is often accompanied by music.
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Temple blocks
Temple blocks are a type of percussion instrument consisting of a set of woodblocks.
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Thavil
A thavil (Tamil:தவில்) or tavil is a barrel-shaped percussion instrument from Tamil Nadu.
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The Oxford Companion to Music
The Oxford Companion to Music is a music reference book in the series of Oxford Companions produced by the Oxford University Press.
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Timbales
Timbales or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing.
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Timpani
Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
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Tom drum
A tom drum (also known as a tom-tom) is a cylindrical drum with no snares, named from the Anglo-Indian and Sinhala language.
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Tombak
The tombak (Persian: تمبک), tonbak (تنبک) or zarb (ضَرب) is an Iranian goblet drum.
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Triangle (musical instrument)
The triangle is a musical instrument in the percussion family, classified as an idiophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system.
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Tubular bells
Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
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Txalaparta
The txalaparta is a specialized Basque music device of wood or stone.
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Udu
The kim-kim or Udu is a plosive aerophone (in this case implosive) and an idiophone of the Igbo of Nigeria.
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Udukai
The udukkai, udukai or udukku (Tamil: உடுக்கை) is a member of the family of membranophone percussion instruments of India and Nepal used in folk music and prayers in Tamil Nadu.
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Unpitched percussion instrument
An unpitched percussion instrument is a percussion instrument played in such a way as to produce sounds of indeterminate pitch, or an instrument normally played in this fashion.
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Vibraphone
The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family.
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Vibraslap
The vibraslap is a percussion instrument consisting of a piece of stiff wire (bent into a U-shape) connecting a wooden ball to a hollow box of wood with metal "teeth" inside.
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Vocal percussion
Vocal percussion is the art of creating sounds with one's mouth that approximate, imitate, or otherwise serve the same purpose as a percussion instrument, whether in a group of singers, an instrumental ensemble, or solo. Percussion instrument and Vocal percussion are percussion.
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Waste container
A waste container, also known as a dustbin, rubbish bin, trash can, and garbage can, among other names, is a type of container intended to store waste that is usually made out of metal or plastic.
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Whistle
A whistle is a musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air.
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Wind chime
Wind chimes are a type of percussion instrument constructed from suspended tubes, rods, bells, or other objects that are often made of metal or wood.
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Wind instrument
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator.
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Wind machine
The wind machine (also called an aeoliphone or aelophon) is a friction idiophone used to produce the sound of wind for orchestral compositions and musical theater productions.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
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Woodblock (instrument)
A woodblock (also spelled as two words, wood block) is a small slit drum made from a single piece of wood.
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Woodwind instrument
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments.
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Xylophone
The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
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Xylorimba
The xylorimba (sometimes referred to as xylo-marimba or marimba-xylophone) is a pitched percussion instrument similar to an extended-range xylophone with a range identical to some 5-octave celestas or 5-octave marimbas, though typically an octave higher than the latter.
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Zill
Zills or zils (from Turkish 'cymbals'), also called finger cymbals, are small metallic cymbals used in belly dancing and similar performances.
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Zoomusicology
Zoomusicology is the study of the musical aspects of sound and communication as produced and perceived by animals.
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1812 Overture
The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op.
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See also
Percussion
- Body percussion
- Drumming
- Latin percussion
- Orchestral percussion
- Percussion instrument
- Percussion instruments
- Percussion music
- Percussion section
- Percussionists
- Vocal percussion
Percussion instruments
- Classification of percussion instruments
- Hardy tool
- Percussion instrument
- Sarronca
- Swage block
References
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