Percussion instruments are ancient instruments that are as old as humanity, instruments that have been part of rituals and military ceremonies and have served entertainment purposes ever since. Each human culture has its own percussion instruments, which also means that the music tools come in a seemingly infinite variety, but they can all be included in two main categories – here they are:
- Membranophones – these instruments deliver sound by means of a stretched membrane sounded either hitting or rubbing the instrument with bare hands, with a stick-like object or with a knotted string attached to the instrument. Most instruments belonging to the category are drums that are further classified into subcategories based on their shape or on the sound they emit;
- Idiophones – these are instruments the whole of which vibrate to deliver sound, without requiring the use of strings or sticks. The category is wide and varied and includes most instruments that are not drums, such as singing bowls, triangles, marimbas, wood blocks or bells. The group has various subcategories as well, such as the instruments that make sound when struck against one another (concussion idiophones); instruments that are sounded with an external object (percussion idiophones); instruments that need to be shaken (rattle idiophones); scraper, plucked and rattled idiophones.
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