percussive instrument

Noun
  1. A musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another (synset 103921556)
    is a type of: instrument, musical instrument - any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds
    subtypes:
    • bones, castanets, clappers, finger cymbals - (used in the plural) 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
    • bell, chime, gong - a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
    • cymbal - a percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; makes a loud crashing sound when hit with a drumstick or when two are struck together
    • drum, membranophone, tympan - a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
    • 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, timpani, tympani, tympanum - 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; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground
    • maraca - a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow gourd containing pebbles or beans; often played in pairs
    • marimba, xylophone - a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets
    • forte-piano, piano, pianoforte - 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; makes the sound of falling rain when tilted; origin was in Chile where tribesmen used it in ceremonies to bring rain
    • steel drum - a concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum; has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin)
    • triangle - a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle
    • vibes, vibraharp, vibraphone - a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound
    has: hammer, mallet - a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
    same as: percussion instrument

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