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Instruments with definite pitch. Timpani or kettle drums -- Wooden-bar instruments. Xylophone ; Keyboard xylophone ; Marimba, xylorimba ; Bass xylophone ; Trough xylophone -- Metal-bar instruments. Glockenspiel or orchestra bells ; Keyboard glockenspiel ; Celesta ; Vibraphone ; Metallophones, Campanelli giapponese, Loo-Jon -- Lithophones (stone-disk instruments) -- Metal instruments. Crotales or antique cymbals ; Gong ; Steel drums ; Bells and chimes. Large bronze bells ; Bell substitutes: Calottes, piano-string bells (grail bells) ; Electro-acoustical bells, Ondes Martenot, Mixtur-Trautonium ; Bell plates ; Orchestral chimes (Tubular chimes) -- Tubaphone (Tubuscampanophone) -- Glass instruments. Sets of tuned glass bells. Musical glasses ; Glass harp ; Glass harmonica ; Tuned bottles -- Miscellaneous instruments. Flexatone, musical saw, sansa, kalimba, marimbula ; Slide whistle (Lotos flute, Swanee whistle) ; The piano as percussion instrument ; Bar instruments of the Orff Schulwerk -- Instruments with indefinite pitch. Introduction ; Skin membranophones ; Drums. Tambourin provencal (Tabor) ; Long drum (with snares) ; Parade drum (Basler Trommel) ; Military drum (field drum, street drum, etc.) ; Tenor drum (without snares) ; Snare drum ; Bass drum ; Frame drum (tambourine without jingles) ; American Indian drums ; Boobam ; Tambourine -- String or friction drums. Pasteboard rattle (Waldteufel) ; Lion's roar (Brummtopf) -- Hand drums. Arabian hand drum (Darabucca) ; Bongo drums) ; Conga drums ; Tablas and banyas -- Tom-toms. Chinese tom-toms ; O-Daiko (Japanese) ; Taiko (Japanese) ; Modern tom-toms ; Roto toms -- Timbales -- Struck idiophones. Triangle ; Cymbals. Clash cymbals ; Suspended cymbals ; Sizzle cymbal ; Hi-hat ; Chinese cymbals -- Tamtams, cast tamtam, water gong. Sartenes ; Tchanchiki or Atari-gane -- Animal bells, herd bells (Almglocken), cowbells, metal blocks, herd bells without clappers (Cencerro) ; Small bells, hand bells, doorbells, Turkish crescent, bell tree, sanctus bells, Sarna bell, ship's bell ; Japanese temple bell (Dobaci) ; Anvil, steel plates (steel disks), automobile brake drums ; Switch ; Clappers. Hands, wooden clappers, whip or slapstick, small boards (bones), bak, strung clappers (Bin-Zasara), concussion blocks (Hyoshigi) ; Claves ; Castanets -- Finger cymbals, cymbal tongs -- Wooden drums. Tubular wood blocks ; Rectangular wood blocks ; Temple blocks ; Mokubio ; Slit drums ; Log drum ; Wood-plate drum (wooden tom-tom), wooden barrel (sake barrel) ; Wooden board -- Hammer -- Scraped instruments. Ratchet ; Guiro (gourd scraper) ; Sapo Cubana or Bambu Brasileno (bamboo scraper) ; Reco-reco (wooden scraper) ; Washboard, metal rasp (Metal scraper) -- Rattling instruments. Beaten rattles. Sistrum, spurs ; Pandereta Brasileno, Wasamba rattle ; Jawbone (Quijada), vibra slap ; Cabaza, Angklung ; Rattle drum, Chinese paper drum -- Container rattles. Round bells, sleigh bells ; Ghungru (Indian bell strap), maracas ; Mexican bean ; Metal rattles, chocallos, ganza, sandbox, sand rattle, marbles -- Row rattles. Fruit husk rattle, chains, chain rattles ; Bamboo (wood) chimes ; Glass chimes ; Disk chimes (shell chimes) -- Foil rattles ; Bumbass -- Imitative instruments. Cuckoo, nightingale, and quail calls, etc. ; Hoofbeats ; Toy trumpets, sand blocks (steam engine), automobile horns, signal whistles, mouth siren, siren, fog horn, etc. ; Wind machines, thunder sheet, rain machine ; Cannon, rifle, and pistol shots, popgun ; Office machines and other noises -- List of Latin-American instruments and their possible substitutions -- Appendix. |
