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  2. Lists of tuned and untuned percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    This is a partitioned list of percussion instruments showing their usage as tuned or untuned. See pitched percussion instrument for discussion of the differences between tuned and untuned percussion. The term pitched percussion is now preferred to the traditional term tuned percussion: Each list is alphabetical.

  3. Classification of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    This underlies the division of the orchestral percussion section into auxiliary percussion, tuned percussion and timpani, and is the reason percussive keyboard instruments such as the celesta are excluded from the percussion section. Origins, cultural significance or tradition, for example grouping instruments as Latin percussion or as African ...

  4. List of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    The bass head is pitched, the treble often unpitched, see pitched percussion instruments easily mistaken for unpitched: Dimdi India Unpitched 211.311 Membranophone Djembe: Mandinka Unpitched 211.261.1 Membranophone Dollu: India Unpitched 211.222.1 Membranophone Đông Sơn drums: Vietnam Bronze drums Drum: Membranophone Drum stick: Unpitched ...

  5. Unpitched percussion instrument - Wikipedia

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    Within a set of unpitched percussion instruments, there is commonly a sense of higher and lower pitch, for example: The smaller of a set of two timbales or bongo drums is tuned higher than the larger. The smaller tom-tom drums in a drum kit are tuned higher than the larger ones. Three or more tom-toms are common, each tuned higher than the ...

  6. List of percussion instruments by type - Wikipedia

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    1 Tuned percussion. 2 Auxiliary percussion ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Untuned percussion; Woodwind instruments;

  7. Percussion section - Wikipedia

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    See also untuned percussion Pitched percussion: A glockenspiel and a set of crotales in use.. This subsection is traditionally called tuned percussion, [2] however the corresponding term untuned percussion is avoided in modern organology in favour of the term unpitched percussion, so the instruments of this subsection are similarly termed pitched percussion.

  8. Pitched percussion instrument - Wikipedia

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    A glockenspiel and a set of crotales in use While individual cowbells are generally considered unpitched, sets such as these can be found in a chromatic arrangement.. 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 ...

  9. Tablature - Wikipedia

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    Guitar tablature is used for acoustic and electric guitar (typically with 6 strings). A modified guitar tablature with four strings is used for bass guitar. Guitar and bass tab is used in pop, rock, folk, and country music lead sheets, fake books, and songbooks, and it also appears in instructional books and websites.