Percussion Family
A musical instrument that is sounded by being stuck or scraped by a beater, a mallet or scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument
Percussion instruments keep rhythm, create special sounds as well as adding excitement and colour to a place
Largest family in the orchestra
The variety of percussion instruments is enormous however they fall into two main groups: tuned and untuned
Instruments of the Percussion family:
Untuned:
- Triangle
- Bass drum
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine
- Cymbals
- Gongs
- Maracas
Tuned:
- Glockenspiel
- Harpsi-chord
- Piano
- Timpani
- Xylophone
