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music-glossary: percussion

 
 1.229 percussion
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 ES: percusión, I: percussioni, F: percussion, D: Schlagzeug, Schlagwerk,
 NL: slagwerk, DK: slagtøj, S: slagverk, FI: lyömäsoittimet.
 
    A family of musical instruments which are played on by striking or
 shaking.  Percussion instruments commonly used in a symphony orchestra
 are kettledrums (I: _timpani_, D: _Pauken_), snare drum, bass drum,
 tambourine, cymbals, Chinese gong (tam-tam), triangle, celesta,
 glockenspiel, and xylophone.
 
 
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