Instruments played either by shaking, or by striking either a membrane or a plate or bar of wood, metal, or other hard material.
Broader Terms
musical instruments (229)
Related Terms
percussion idiophones (72),
<struck drums> (5),
<zitherlike chordophones: struck> (8),
percussionists (7)
Used for
instruments, percussion
Alternative Terms percussion instrument
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