Percussion Instruments

Both have relatively shortresonators and they usually share the same octal range. However, Vibes are made of metal and have a foot - controlled dampening bar to stop the notes from sustain, unlike their usually Rosewood counterparts.

During WWII due to rationing, American manufacturers could not build new pianos. Even so, there was still a high demand for the instruments. Many re-builders/tuners took old uprights and simply chopped off part of the top creating a step and attaching a mirror to make them look "new" and updated. The practice continued for the next 20-30 years.

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Piano strings are made of steel wire and the hammers and dampers are made of wood and felt. Piano tuning pins are made of metal. The frame can be made of wood or metal and the bridge can be made of wood or metal.

I can't really understand the Q but i think a kazoo

The chimes have the highest pitch in the percussion family.

I know that Dispatch has a book of music that you can buy off the internet on Sheet music Plus or something like that, because all of their music is only sold in Boston and not worldwide. On their book, I don't think that their is the song piano man, (their version at least) and so, the Billy Joel version, which happens to be the original is probably the only one you can purchase.

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most likely, musicnotes.com - great website!!

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A piano has many different shapes but the main three are the upright, the grand and the baby grand piano.

First, you need to have a piano. Next, you need to take piano lessons, and then you can purchase the music, learn it well by practicing, and then you will have played it. That's how you play this piece.

G A B G l G A B G l B C D l B C D l D E D B A D l D E D B A D l G G D G D G ..

I've played a "thunder sheet" where you have a long sheet of metal, i think bronze, and then shake it back and forth to create a loud roar. There is also a method called the lions roar, where you get a bass drum, we used a marching bass drum, then attach a string to it, and pulling on it will create friction and create a loud bass drum sound.

The use of the xylophone for orchestral music is quite distinct from the xylophone of Indonesian/African origin. It was a Polish Jew, born in Belorussia who modified the instrument and played it all over Europe. His name was Guzikow and was known to and admired by Mendelsohn. The first orchestral piece was by Saint Saens in the Danse Macabre (or possibly the first score was 'Traumbilder' by Hans Christian Lumbye in 1873 - see Answers.com) http://www.rainlore.demon.co.uk/Guzikow/GuzArtcls-Eng01.html Also see Grove's Dictionary of Music which is available online to subscribers but can also be seen in hardback at most public libraries.

It is the metal part around the outside of the drum that is around the drum head.

The diatonic scale that is played mostly on the black keys is F# major (also known enharmonically as Gb Major). The scale that is played only on black keys is the five note F# pentatonic scale. (AKA Gb pentatonic scale).

If you look at a keyboard such as on here: http://www.infovisual.info/04/041_en.html You will find that C is to the left of the two black notes. Then it carries on along the white notes. C, D, E, F, G, A, B, then starts again. C,D,E,F,G,A,B In between those white notes there are black notes. Look at one of the white keys, say it is C you are looking at. To the left of that note it is a flat of it. So it is C flat. However to the right of that note it is a sharp. So it is C sharp.

Percussion instruments are classed by organologists as idiophones: instruments which produce their sound by the vibration of their bodies. Percussion specifically infers being struck.

Pitch is classed as sound with periodic structure, which is usually clarified as "not noise". Noise is generally described as being a lot of components, usually not related mathematically to one another. As clarification, a flute can sound a very-nearly pure sine tone, but at lower pitches makes a complex sound with any sine components 'harmonically' related: each is an integer multiple of the fundamental's frequency. Bells are periodic, although their components tend to be less harmonic, and gongs tend to "klangs", stacks of music-interval-related components (like fifths or fourths) which are not related by simple counting-math.

Therefore, percussion instruments of definite pitch should be those instruments which make a sound definable as periodic from the vibration of their own bodies, usually from being struck. (This leaves out the snare-drum, for instance, because the action of the snares is to generate a lot of unrelated components, which act to make a sense of noise, rather than tone.)

Many drums emit a single pitch: tomtoms, for instance. Timtoms are a variant invented in the last century for marching bands: open-shell drums hung together on a wearable frame, each drum pitched to allow a semblance of melody. These are on the edge of 'percussion instruments of definite pitch'; it is unlikely that some one will object greatly if two timtom sets are not tuned together, even in the same band.

Tympani may also teeter on the edge of the definition, because, although they can produce specific pitches and can be tuned, the pedal or crank used to tune them can result in very different pitches even for the same positions. However, we're entering here into the definition.

Most of the percussion instruments of definite pitch have a number of elements, each tuned to produce a definite pitch, and struck to produce the sound. This includes celeste, vibraphone, orchestra bells, and even pianos (the hammers allow it to be considered part of the percussion section of the orchestra). Still giving a sense of pitch, but with non-harmonic componenets, the xylophone, tubular bells, and perhaps marimba (which might be termed harmonic after the initial striking noise), all qualify.

The newest variety of percussion instrument of definite pitch would be the Thongophones, which Blue Man Group have brought to popularity: tubes or pipes actuated by slapping a membrane (the Thong) over their ends. They produce definite, repeatable pitches, are gathered into logical groupings like the xylophone and others.

It would be easier to answer what instruments are a part of a standard drum kit as there are hundreds and maybe thousands of percussion instruments. A standard drum kit consists of a Bass drum, snare drum, toms, ride cymbal, crash cymbal, and high-hat. Other percussion instruments not part of a standard drumset are timpani, bells, cowbell, congas, bongos, tambourine, roto-toms, and the list goes on and on.

Technically yes. By definition percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. Basically instrument must have an outside source of friction to make a sound. Whether that be air blowing through, or a bow on a string. I suppose you don't have to hit it to make a sound though. You could have a set of wind chimes and then blow on them and have them hit each other, then creating a frequency.

It depends on the medium: In orchestras and concert bands, timpani is most often used. In marching bands, the drumline (snaredrum, tonal basses, and tenor drums) are most common. In solo performance, marimbas are most often used (although vibraphone is very popular as well. And in any other form of pop music (radio music) the drum set is the instrument of choice.

The piano has a total of 88 keys.

The piano very likely has its origins in the invention of a crude harp. There were similar instruments, such as dulcimers, prior to the eighteenth century - the 1700s - but the invention of the first piano as we know it is credited to Bartolemo Cristofori, an Italian musician and specialist in musical instruments, who was retained by the Medici family. From the end of the 1700s the piano was redeveloped and became the instrument of choice of many famous composers and artists. The English harpsichord manufacturers, Broadwood, developed the piano into the instrument closer to that which we know today. For further information, go to http://www.uk-piano.org/history/history_1.html or other sources such as Wikipedia.

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