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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. Pitched percussion instrument - Wikipedia

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    Pitched percussion instrument. 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 ...

  4. 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

  5. Category:Pitched percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    Percussion instruments used as both pitched and unpitched‎ (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Pitched percussion instruments" The following 63 pages are in this category ...

  6. Percussion section - Wikipedia

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    A percussion section with pitched percussion (tubular bells, background), auxiliary percussion (crash cymbals, suspended cymbal, snare drum and bass drum) and timpani (foreground) in use. The percussion section is one of the main divisions of the orchestra and the concert band. It includes most percussion instruments and all unpitched instruments.

  7. 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.

  8. Xylophone - Wikipedia

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    See media help. The xylophone (from Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon) 'wood' and φωνή (phōnḗ) 'sound, voice'; [1][2] lit. 'sound of wood') is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel (which uses metal bars), the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned ...

  9. Timpani - Wikipedia

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    Timpani (/ ˈtɪmpəni /; [2] Italian pronunciation: [ˈtimpani]) or kettledrums (also informally called timps) [2] are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum categorised as a hemispherical drum, they consist of a membrane called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper.

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