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percussion instruments
Instruments that are sounded by striking, shaking, plucking, or scraping. All instruments such as drums and bells fall into this category. The formal classifications of most percussion instruments are either idiophones (instruments that vibrate when struck, shook, plucked, or scraped) or membranophones (instruments that have a stretched membrane that vibrates when struck, shook, or rubbed). Informally, Percussion instruments may be further divided into those instruments that produce a definite pitch and those that do not. Some whistles (aerophones) are also included in this category of instruments because they tend to be considered sound effects rather than serious instruments.
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TABLE OF COMMON PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS
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tuned_percussion
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untuned_percussion
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auxiliary_percussion
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latin_percussion
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drum_kit
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bass_drum crash_cymbals gong snare_drum suspended_cymbal tam-tam tenor_drum tom-tom |
acme_siren bird_whistle boat_whistle finger_cymbals flex-a-tone jews_harp marching_machine police_whistle ratchet rattle sandpaper_blocks slapstick sleigh_bells tambourine temple_blocks thunder_machine train_whistle triangle vibra-slap wind_machine wood_block |
agogo_bells bongo_drums caba_a castanets claves conga cowbell g_iro maracas scraper timbales |
kick_drum hi-hat ride_cymbal sizzle_cymbal snare_drum splash_cymbal tom-tom |