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A percussion instrument indicates a Musical instrument with percussion, i.e. whose sound level results from the striking or the scraping of a membrane or of a resonant material.

This family of instrument can be used in all standard of music, of the traditional Musique with large the Symphony orchestra of Classical music - for example in the Musique for cords, percussion and celesta of Béla Bartók (the Célesta being also a percussion instrument with a keyboard).

They probably constituted the first musical instruments and form integral part of the majority of the musical genres.

Generally, some elements of percussions are used by the Batteur, within a Groupe of music. But sometimes, the Percussionniste holds a whole special place in the Orchestre S with or without Batteur, even can replace whole or part of the other instruments with the arrival of electronics, beginning again with limps at rates/rhythms the dominant position which it had.

One distinguishes the percussions with skin (or Membranophone S) from the Idiophone S. One also finds in this category some Cordophone S, but that remains relatively exceptional.

Membranophones

The striking of a Peau (animal or synthetic) tended on a was, with rods or the hands, generates a its which is amplified by the case of Résonance and by the possible addition of Timbre S. the height of the sound depends on the size of the barrel, the Grosse case delivering a serious sound more that the clear Caisse. The membranophones count the clear Caisse, the Grosse case, the drum, the tambourine.

See also: Membranophone

Idiophones

A idiophone is a percussion instrument of which the material itself produced the sound at the time of an impact, either by an external instrument (like a rod), or by another part of the instrument itself.

See also: Idiophone

Cordophones

The whole of the cords of these percussions are struck in rate/rhythm and make it possible to produce a sound granted to the instruments which they accompany.

See also: Cordophone

List percussion instruments

In the following list, one notes ( M ) for the membranophones, ( I ) for the idiophones, and ( C ) for the cordophones.

Some large percussionnists

See also: Percussionniste

See also dynamic percussion

Bonds for percussions

  • Manufacturer of Japanese percussion
  • Gate of the percussions
  • Zebatuca, group of percussion of Brazil in North and Belgium
  • Percussion instrument

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