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This is a wide-ranging, inclusive list of
percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...
s.
It includes:
* Instruments
classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as struck or friction
idiophone
An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity ( electrophones) ...
s, struck or friction
membranophones
A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane. It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification.
...
or struck
chordophone
String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.
Musicians play some string instruments by plucking the st ...
s. Where an instrument meets this definition but is often or traditionally excluded from the term ''percussion'' this is noted.
* Instruments commonly used as
unpitched
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 ...
and/or
untuned percussion
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 ...
.
* Instruments commonly part of the
percussion section
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.
The percussion section is itself divided into three subsections:
* Pitched percuss ...
of a
band
Band or BAND may refer to:
Places
*Bánd, a village in Hungary
*Band, Iran, a village in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
*Band, Mureș, a commune in Romania
* Band-e Majid Khan, a village in Bukan County, West Azerbaijan Province, I ...
or
orchestra
An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...
.
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 instrument, only that subtype is listed here. For example, a
samba whistle (or ''apito'') is an unpitched percussion instrument, but a
whistle
A whistle is an instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means. Whistles vary in size from a small slide whistle or nose flute type to a larg ...
in general is not.
For brevity,
synonym
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are all ...
s represented in Wikipedia by
redirects to a main article are not listed, but may be mentioned as a note. Only the main article names are listed in these cases. For example,
apito
Apito, which is the Portuguese word for "whistle", refers to any of a variety of whistles.
Purpose
The apito de samba ("samba whistle") is used during performances of samba. In a samba school, the apito de samba plays a crucial role because d ...
is listed but samba whistle is merely noted as an alternate name. A distinct instrument or type represented only by a redirect to an article section should however be shown. Instruments represented only by redlinks have no Wikipedia articles as yet but are shown.
See
list of percussion instruments by type
This is a list of percussion instruments.
Tuned percussion
* Cimbalom
* Crotales
* Dhol
* Dholki
* Gong
* Glass harmonica
* Hammered dulcimer
* Handbells
* Hang
* Lithophone
* Marimba
* Metallophone
* Mridangam
* Glockenspiel
* The harp stop ...
for some shorter, more focused lists. Use the sorting arrows on the ''common usage'' column to group instruments as ''pitched'', ''unpitched'' or ''both''. Use the sorting arrows on the ''Classification'' column to group instruments according to their
Hornbostel–Sachs
Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the in 1914. An English translation was published in the '' Galpin Society Jo ...
classification Classification is a process related to categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated and understood.
Classification is the grouping of related facts into classes.
It may also refer to:
Business, organizat ...
.
Percussion instruments
See also
Top-level articles
*
Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...
*
List of percussion instruments by type
This is a list of percussion instruments.
Tuned percussion
* Cimbalom
* Crotales
* Dhol
* Dholki
* Gong
* Glass harmonica
* Hammered dulcimer
* Handbells
* Hang
* Lithophone
* Marimba
* Metallophone
* Mridangam
* Glockenspiel
* The harp stop ...
*
Classification of percussion instruments There are several overlapping schemes for the musical instrument classification, classification of percussion instruments.
These schemes are based on four types of criteria:
* The means by which the sound is produced. The most widely used classifi ...
Subgroups of percussion instruments
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Membranophone
A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane. It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification. ...
*
Idiophone
An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity ( electrophones) ...
*
Melodic percussion instrument
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 ...
*
Mallet percussion
A keyboard percussion instrument, also known as a bar or mallet percussion instrument, is a pitched percussion instrument arranged in a similar pattern to a piano keyboard and played with hands or percussion mallets. While most keyboard percussion ...
*
Keyboard percussion
A keyboard percussion instrument, also known as a bar or mallet percussion instrument, is a pitched percussion instrument arranged in a similar pattern to a piano keyboard and played with hands or percussion mallets. While most keyboard percussion ...
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References
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