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  2. Jazz drumming - Wikipedia

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    Jazz drumming is the art of playing percussion (predominantly the drum kit, which includes a variety of drums and cymbals) in jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz fusion and 1980s-era Latin jazz. The techniques and instrumentation of this type of performance have evolved over several periods, influenced by jazz ...

  3. List of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    Drum: Membranophone Drum stick: Unpitched 111.11 Idiophone Drum kit: New Orleans Unpitched Membranophone Dunun: Mandé Both 211.212.1 Membranophone In ballet style playing, a repeating melody is played on three pitched drums Egg shaker: Unpitched 112.13 Idiophone Ekwe: Nigeria Unpitched [clarification needed] 111.24 Idiophone A type of slit ...

  4. Drum kit - Wikipedia

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    Hardware is the name given to the metal stands that support the drums, cymbals, and other percussion instruments. Generally, the term also includes the hi-hat pedal and clutch, and bass drum pedal or pedals, and the drum stool. Hardware is carried along with sticks and other accessories in the traps case, and includes: Cymbal stands; Hi-hat stand

  5. Orchestral percussion - Wikipedia

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    In orchestral literature, the bass drum usually deals more with coloring and shading the sounds of the orchestra as opposed to providing a solid, rhythmic foundation like in marching band drumset. The bass drum is usually used to accent strong points in the music and is often combined with a cymbal crash to further accentuate the moment.

  6. Gene Krupa - Wikipedia

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    His collaboration with Avedis Zildjian developed the modern hi-hat cymbals and standardized the names and uses of the ride cymbal, crash cymbal and splash cymbal. He is also credited with helping to formulate the modern drum set, being one of the first jazz drummers to use a bass drum in a recording session (December 1927). [8]

  7. Cymbal - Wikipedia

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    Orchestral clash cymbals are traditionally used in pairs, each one having a strap set in the bell of the cymbal by which they are held. Such a pair is known as clash cymbals, crash cymbals, hand cymbals, or plates. Certain sounds can be obtained by rubbing their edges together in a sliding movement for a "sizzle", striking them against each ...

  8. List of cymbal manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    A stamp from a 1950s-era Bellotti Cymbal. Bellotti was a small Italian cymbal workshop that produced cymbals from the 1950s until the 1970s. [2]Because so few of these vintage cymbals exist on the market today (they are much less prevalent that some other vintage Italian contemporaries, such as Zanchi), Bellotti remains one of the more obscure names in cymbal manufacturers.

  9. 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.