Percussion Instruments

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Percussion Instruments

Many different families of Musical Instruments are recognised to exist today. Among these, the wide range of Percussion instruments are perhaps the most interesting and awe inspiring of all.

Their are varied in their looks, sounds and the way in which they are played. Percussion Instruments have been a part of the growing world of music from time immemorial. It is believed that Percussion Instruments are the oldest and most widely used family of instruments across a host of music styles and genres of music.

What do you mean by Percussion?

Percussion refers to the act of hitting, striking or scraping to create sound. All percussion instruments are either beaten with a beater, hit, scraped or struck with hand or against each other to produce a combination of different sounds.

Percussion Instruments: 

The family of percussion instruments is one of the most varied and includes some of the largest and smallest instruments known to exist today. Some of these instruments are extremely simple in their looks while others have a detailed and complicated structure and requires a lot of detailing in their construction. These instruments can be divided into these wide categories - Drums and Cymbals & Tuned and Untuned Idiophones.

Here is a list of some of the commonly recognized Percussion Instruments -