There it became known as the marimba, and it has remained a popular folk instrument in Central America. The wooden bars are affixed to a frame supported by legs or hung at the player’s …

percussion instrument, any musical instrument belonging to either of two groups, idiophones or membranophones. Idiophones are instruments whose own substance vibrates to produce …

Instruments of indefinite pitch exist by the hundreds. Some of the more common ones are the snare drum, tenor drum, tom-tom, bass drum, bongos, Latin American timbales, many types of …

Xylophone, percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated, tuned wooden bars supported at nodal (nonvibrating) points and struck with sticks or padded mallets.

Nov 20, 2025 · Some 16th-century writers excluded certain instruments from this classification; the musical theorist Lodovico Zacconi went so far as to exclude all percussion instruments and …

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, …

Percussion instruments date from the most ancient times. Two rocks struck together to beat time, or pebbles rattled rhythmically in a gourd, are some of the ancient instruments still used today …

Percussion instrument - Orchestral, Drums, Mallets: The exploitation of various and unusual tone colours and effects characterizes the use of percussion instruments in 20th- and 21st-century …

percussion instrument, A musical instrument that is struck (or sometimes shaken or scraped) to produce sound.

The most widespread European-derived percussion instruments are the bass drum, the snare drum, and various types of tambourines, such as the Brazilian adufo and the pandereta (both …