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  2. Unpitched percussion instrument - Wikipedia

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    An unpitched percussion instrument is a percussion instrument played in such a way as to produce sounds of indeterminate pitch, or an instrument normally played in this fashion. Unpitched percussion is typically used to maintain a rhythm or to provide accents , and its sounds are unrelated to the melody and harmony of the music.

  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. Classification of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    The means of playing the instrument and skills required to play it, for example the grouping together of mallet percussion instruments, or of hand percussion instruments. This underlies the division of the orchestral percussion section into auxiliary percussion , tuned percussion and timpani , and is the reason percussive keyboard instruments ...

  5. Category:Unpitched percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    Percussion instruments used as both pitched and unpitched (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Unpitched percussion instruments" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.

  6. 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.

  7. Category:Percussion instruments used as both pitched and ...

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    The cymbal, for example, is a prototypical unpitched percussion instrument, but the cup chime is a pitched cymbal. Each article on a percussion instrument should be in exactly one of the three categories Pitched percussion, Unpitched percussion, and Percussion instruments used as both pitched and unpitched. Of the three, this should be by far ...

  8. Percussion instrument - Wikipedia

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    Orchestral percussion section with timpani, unpitched auxiliary percussion and pitched tubular bells Djembé and balafon played by Susu people of Guinea Concussion idiophones (), and struck drums Modern Japanese taiko percussion ensemble Very large drum kit played by Terry Bozzio Mridangam, an Indian percussion instrument, played by T. S. Nandakumar Evelyn Glennie is a percussion soloist

  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. The term pitched percussion is now preferred to the traditional term tuned percussion: Each list is alphabetical.