Definition of percussive instrument Percussive instrument
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| percussive instrument - a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another | ||
| percussion instrument | ||
| musical instrument, instrument any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds | ||
| bones, castanets, clappers, finger cymbals a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | ||
| chime, gong, bell a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | ||
| cymbal a percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; makes a loud crashing sound when hit with a drumstick or when two are struck together | ||
| membranophone, tympan, drum small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | ||
| glockenspiel, orchestral bells a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers | ||
| tam-tam, gong a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick | ||
| kettledrum, timpani, tympani, tympanum, kettle a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid | ||
| lagerphone an Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground | ||
| mallet, hammer a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing | ||
| maraca a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow gourd containing pebbles or beans; often played in pairs | ||
| marimba, xylophone a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets | ||
| forte-piano, pianoforte, piano a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds | ||
| rain stick a percussion instrument that is made from a dried cactus branch that is hollowed out and filled with small pebbles and capped at both ends; makes the sound of falling rain when tilted; origin was in Chile where tribesmen used it in ceremonies to bring rain | ||
| steel drum a concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum; has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin) | ||
| triangle a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle | ||
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