Percussion Instruments

Any instrument that is played without blowing on it. Drums, or anything else you use a stick to play. Any stringed instrument, and piano's. And odds and end's instruments like tambourines and claves.

Yes it is. Because it creates sound through the vibration of its drum head/stretched membrane.

There are 2 types of percussion, Idiophones and Membranophones

Idiophones are instruments that produce sound by the vibration of the instrument as a whole through hitting,shaking,friction,blowing,plucking and etc. So basically the instrument, as a whole, is the one vibrating and that produces the sound.

Membranophones on the other hand are instruments that produce sound using Stretched membranes, such as, Drum heads and animal skins through Hitting it. So basically, The Stretched membrane is the one vibrating on Membranophone instruments.

DW is the nickname for the Drum Warehouse which is a drum and hardware manufacturing company based in California. They manufacture a wide variety of percussion instruments including traditional drum lines, snare drum lines as well as other percussion instruments.

There are a lot of famous timpani players out there. Some well known timpani players are: Vic Firth and Stanley Leonard.

Because Within the orchestra the piano usually supports the harmony, but it has another role as a solo instrument (an instrument that plays by itself), playing both melody and harmony.

1. The first percussion instruments were likely human hands and feet used to clap or stomp a rhythm. Eventually culture discovered that they could create louder, more varied sounds with crafted surfaces and implements.
2. The most common percussion instruments in the orchestra include the timpani, xylophone, cymbals, triangle, snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, maracas, gongs, chimes, celesta and piano.
3. It's not easy to be a percussionist because it takes a lot of practice to hit an instrument with the right amount of strength, in the right place and at the right time.
4. The percussion family is the largest in the orchestra.
5. Percussion instruments include any instrument that makes a sound when it is hit, shaken, or scraped.

The tympani, kettle drum, and the timps are other names for the timpani.

A symphony or an Orchestra. There are also some rock drummers who have placed and used timpanis on their drum sets.

Maracas sound like rice hitting a hollow wooden sphere, I guess. It makes a "Chi" sound if shaken all fiercely, sort of staccato. If you turn it in your hands slowly, it sounds similar to rain.
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Drum percussion is so loud because of the oscillations of the drum surface. The oscillation of drum surface causes oscillation of air molecules and loud noise.

Yes, it does. To be more in depth, the cowbell actually is a part of the auxillary percussion family, but it is still considered part of the percussion family(general percussion).

It is known as the Cajon/Cahon/Kahon but some people call it the beat box

Electric Triangle

The Timpani sound is produced by hitting the top of it with a mallet.

Untuned percussion instruments include:

board and pit

bones

castanets

Claves

Cow bells.

Cymbals.

Gong.

kenons

maracas

pata

Shakers

side drum

spoons

steel drum

tam-tam

Tambourine.

Triangle.

wood block

They both have stretched membrane or a drumhead which is hit and the one that vibrates to produce that sound of the drum.

Well all u have to do is...... Look on google and type in how to diophone and it should come up with useful information

Because for it to produce its sound, you have to strike it. It also produces sound through the vibration of the metal keys or the instrument as a whole. This is the reason a Glockenspiel can be considered as a Percussion Instrument.

Yes. Although there are pitches within the bells of the instrument, it is still categorized as percussion. Think of the "steel drum".. it is a percussion instrument with high-pitched notes affiliated. When something is used in the sense of rhythm, or when something is struck with a stick, mallet or hammers, it is considered a percussion instrument. The xylophone, kalimba and even the piano are also percussion instruments. Hope this helped.

If you want good sound quality I would definitely recommend buying a professionally made timpani, but you will definitely want to look at below site for the structure of a timpani if you plan to build one.

I just checked its tuned percussion (85%sure). writen by lindi :)

Most have 61- same as a synthesizer or a standard keyboard on an organ. It's equal to 5 octaves, notes C to C.

An acoustic piano has 88 and other electric keyboards often have several selections of the same model with 61, 76 and 88-key versions, depending on whether you want range of notes or portability for playing gigs.