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This month, we'll be covering percussion instruments more to celebrate international percussion month. These are instruments are make a sound in many shapes and forms. It can include the instrument being struck or scraped by a tool, it can be shaked, rubbed or any other action that creates vibration.
The word "percussion" is from a Latin term: "Percussio" which means to beat or strike, in a musical sense. Many anthropologists explain that percussion instruments were the first musical instruments created since sound can be made from our hands, feet, sticks, rocks, and other common objects like sticks
There's 5 classifications of percussion instruments - mostly depending on whether it can be pitched or is unpitched. The classifications and some examples are:
There's so many different kinds of percussion instruments out there in the world but here's a snippet from our world instruments video covering 3 percussion instruments from Latin America, and comparing similar percussion instruments around the world! Here's a list of them featured in the video:
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