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2. Hand percussion - Wikipedia

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   Hand percussion is a percussion instrument that is held in the hand. [1] They can be made from wood, metal or plastic, bottles stops and are usually shaken, scraped, or tapped with fingers or a stick. It includes all instruments that are not drums, or any instrument that is a pitched percussion instrument, such as the marimba or the xylophone.

3. 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 ...

4. Castanets - Wikipedia

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   In ancient Greece and ancient Rome there was a similar instrument called the crotalum. The instrument consists of a pair of concave shells joined on one edge by a string. They are held in the hand and used to produce clicks for rhythmic accents or a ripping or rattling sound consisting of a rapid series of clicks.

5. List of percussion instruments by type - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of percussion instruments. Tuned percussion ... Wood block; Snare Drum; Bass Drum; ... Hand-repique; Ilu; Jawbone (instrument) Maracas; Pandeiro; Repique;

6. Claves - Wikipedia

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   Claves (/ ˈ k l ɑː v eɪ z, k l eɪ v z /; Spanish:) 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.

7. Cajón - Wikipedia

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   The instrument reached a peak in popularity by 1850, and by the end of the 19th century cajón players were experimenting with the design of the instrument by bending some of the planks in the cajón's body to alter the instrument's patterns of sound vibration. [2] After slavery the cajón was spread to a much larger audience including Criollos.