Arts & Culture
percussion instrument
musical instrument
Flemish rommelpot friction drum
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Arts & Culture
- Key People:
- Steve Reich
- Anthony Braxton
- Baby Dodds
- Jo Jones
- Clyde Stubblefield
percussion instrument, any musical instrument belonging to either of two groups, idiophones or membranophones. Idiophones are instruments whose own substance vibrates to produce sound (as opposed to the strings of a guitar or the air column of a flute); examples include bells, clappers, and rattles. Membranophones emit sound by the vibration of a stretched membrane; the prime examples are drums. The term percussion instrument refers to the fact that most idiophones and membranophones are sounded by being struck, although other playing methods include rubbing, shaking, plucking, and scraping. Although many idiophones and some membranophones are tunable and hence may be ...(100 of 11075 words)