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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    between woodwinds and brass); Percussion instruments; and Electronic instruments The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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 (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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    Johannes de Muris, who used the terms tensibilia (stringed instruments), inflatibilia (wind instruments), and percussibilia (all percussion instruments). In...
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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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    Pogo cello (category North American percussion instruments)
    The pogo cello is a percussion instrument in the idiophone family. This instrument can be heard in the skiffle bands of England, jug bands from the United...
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  • Aluphone (category Pitched percussion instruments)
    The Aluphone is a tuned percussion instrument consisting of aluminum bells that are struck with a mallet to produce musical tones. In its standard configuration...
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