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2. List of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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   Instruments commonly used as unpitched and/or untuned percussion. Instruments commonly part of the percussion section of a band or orchestra. These three groups overlap heavily, but inclusion in any one is sufficient for an instrument to be included in this list. However, when only a specific subtype of the instrument qualifies as a percussion ...

3. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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   Although a percussion instrument, the celesta is used in the orchestral keyboard section rather than the percussion section. pitched percussion: xylophone: Cristal Baschet-friction idiophone-crystallophone: gaiaphone: The Cristal Baschet uses friction of wet fingertips on glass bars to produce sound. pitched percussion: Electrocardiophone ...

4. Quinto (drum) - Wikipedia

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   The quinto (literally fifth in Spanish) is the smallest and highest pitched type of conga drum. It is used as the lead drum in Cuban rumba styles such as guaguancó, yambú, columbia and guarapachangueo, and it is also present in congas de comparsa. Quinto phrases are played in both triple-pulse (12/8, 6/8) and duple-pulse (4/4, 2/2) structures.

5. Western concert flute family - Wikipedia

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   The piccolo is the highest-pitched member of the flute family, with a range an octave above that of the concert flute. It is usually the highest-pitched instrument within orchestras and bands. The piccolo is known for being difficult to play in tune due to its small size.

6. Xylorimba - Wikipedia

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   Xylorimba, range C3-C8. 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.

7. Celesta - Wikipedia

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   The celesta is a transposing instrument; it sounds one octave higher than the written pitch. Instruments of different sizes exist with ranges of three to five and a half octaves. Its four-octave sounding range is generally considered to be C 4 to C 8. The fundamental frequency of 4186 Hz makes this one of the highest pitches in common use.

8. Xylophone - Wikipedia

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   ' sound of wood ') is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use.

9. Pitched percussion instrument - Wikipedia

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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 or more pitches, as opposed to an unpitched percussion instrument which is used to produce sounds of indefinite pitch. [1] Pitching of percussion instruments is achieved through a variety of means.