English > percussion instrument: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | A musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another. |
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| Synonym | percussive instrument |
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| Parts | mallet, hammer | A light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. |
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| Narrower | 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 |
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| chime, bell, gong | A percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer |
| cymbal | A percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk |
| drum, membranophone, tympan | A musical percussion instrument |
| glockenspiel, orchestral bells | A percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers |
| gong, tam-tam | A percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick |
| kettle, kettledrum, tympanum, tympani, timpani | A large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it |
| lagerphone | An Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music |
| maraca | A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow gourd containing pebbles or beans |
| marimba, xylophone | A percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators |
| piano, pianoforte, forte-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 |
| steel drum | A concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum |
| triangle | A percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle |
| vibraphone, vibraharp, vibes | A percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound |
| Broader | musical instrument, instrument | Any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds |
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| Spanish | instrumento de percusión |
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| Catalan | instrument de percussió |
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