Percussion Instruments

Percussion Instruments Are Played By banging Or Shaking The Instrument

The Tambourine is a small hand drum with a thin base on top of a wooden ring base, It also has several lose metal discs attached to the sides so when shaken it makes many different sounds.

The Triangle is a bar of metal made into a triangle shape and normally made out of steel , one of the angles are left open to allow for different sound effects

Maracas are native instruments and sold in pairs, they are made out of wood, leather or plastic and filled with dried beans or seeds. You shake them to get the different sounds,


A Kettledrum is made from a special skin material being stretched over a large bowl normally made from copper , they also have a pedal attached to allow for tuning of the drum, you strike the drum with an instrument called a timpani stick

A Gong is a flat metal disc which you hit with a stick or mallet , there are several types of gongs and shapes

The Rainsticks are made from bamboo sticks and filled with seeds or pebbles and closed both ends, sounds like rainfall when moved around , or can be used as a shaker instrument


The Xlophone is made up of wooden bars of different lengths and can be tuned normally from the longer bars being the low notes and the shorter bars being the higher notes.and then you strike the instrument with either a mallet made from wood or plastic.


The Piano sounds are re-produced when the keys are pressed against the strings which are striked from a felt covered hammer, the hammers rebound allowing the strings to vibrate in reproducing different sounds.


Cymbals are thin pieces of round metal and can be cup shaped or flat that you clap together to make the different sounds, but are also widely used with drum sets.

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