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Guitars, harps, all keyboard instruments and chromatic percussion instruments like xylophones, marimbas and vibraphones.
You can play percussion instruments with sticks, brushes, rods or play with your hands.
For the most part if they have keys like the piano or bells then yes. Timpani are also tuned to certain notes before they are played. Drums though, like snare and bass, do not play different pitches.
Flute and percussion
Music.
The difference is that pitched instruments play notes, whereas non pitched instruments do not. Example, there are many non pitched percussion instruments, like snare drums, but drums such as timpani's actually play notes and can be adjusted, making them pitched. All woodwind brass and string instruments are considered pitched.
Both xylophones and timpani are percussion instruments. Both instruments can be found in the percussion section of any professional symphony. At standard percussion auditions, percussionists are required to play etudes on xylophone, timpani, and snare drum.
Flute and percussion
Vocals, guitar, percussion
Percussion comes from the word Percuss. To percuss something is to tap it or hit it sharply, which is how you play most percussion instruments.
He was a composer, conductor, and pianist. Considering that Pianos are also percussion instruments, He played a percussion instrument.
Percussion instruments are instruments that are hit when they are played.Some percussion instruments include: the drum (including drum kits and bass drums), tuned percussion such as the glockenspiel or xylophone, and untuned percussion such as the triangle, the tambourine or cymbals.The piano is technically a percussion instrument because even though it has strings, hammers inside hit the strings to make them sound.