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Oktoberfest celebrations and music vary by location. Commonalities between the festival instruments are accordions, brass and woodwinds. Furthermore, to see Oktoberfest bands using stringed, percussion and synthesizers are not uncommon either.
All drums are percussion instruments.
Brass, Woodwinds, Percussion
Drums are members of the percussion family of instruments.
percussion instrument
Many mallet percussion instruments, like the bells, xylo, etc. are pitched. The timp is also pitched, and you have to tune that one. The piano is also a pitched percussion instrument. Many people think that the piano is not a percussion instrument, and that it is a string instrument. This is wrong. The piano uses a type of mallet that hits the pitched piano strings making it a percussion instrument. The harpsichord is like a piano, but uses plucking to strike the strings, making it a string instrument. Actually tom toms are tuned to the preference of the artist, however they are not required to be played at a certain pitch.
Generally they are percussion instruments. Assuming you mean like a snare, bass, etc.
a cowbell is an instrument that you play with a stick that you hit it with or you can shake it to make the noise. Also a cowbell is a percussion instrument.
A kettledrum (or timpani) is a type of percussion instrument called a membranophone, because it sounds by a vibrating membrane. Clarinets and oboes are woodwinds, and sound by vibrating reeds.
Towards the end of the Ottoman Empire 'Koceks' danced and played percussion instruments, a type of castanet known as a 'carpare' later replaced by metal ones called 'zills'
Instruments used in Cuban music include the claves, maracas, guiro, thumb piano, the cowbell, and other percussion instruments such as the bongos and conga drums. Some European-style instruments such as the guitar are also used.
The instrument know as a tam tam is a type of Gong. As such a tam tam is part of the percussion class of instruments. This type of instrument is popular in East and South East Asian music.