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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.
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.
The notation of non-pitched percussion instruments is less standardized, and therefore often includes a key or legend specifying which line or space each individual instrument will be notated on. Cymbals are usually notated with 'x' note heads, drums with normal elliptical note heads and auxiliary percussion with alternative note heads. [1]
This underlies the division of the orchestral percussion section into auxiliary percussion, tuned percussion and timpani, and is the reason percussive keyboard instruments such as the celesta are excluded from the percussion section. Origins, cultural significance or tradition, for example grouping instruments as Latin percussion or as African ...
Within a set of unpitched percussion instruments, there is commonly a sense of higher and lower pitch, for example: The smaller of a set of two timbales or bongo drums is tuned higher than the larger. The smaller tom-tom drums in a drum kit are tuned higher than the larger ones. Three or more tom-toms are common, each tuned higher than the ...
Tuned percussion; Untuned percussion; Woodwind instruments; External links. Percussion instruments This page was last edited on 1 March 2024, at 15:33 ...
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
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.