What is a percussion instrument? A percussion instrument is any musical instrument that’s played by being struck or scraped – that could be by a beater like a drum stick, by the player’s hand, or by ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

The Drexel Percussion Ensemble brings together the ancient with the modern in percussion instrument applications. Students will learn to play traditional hand percussion instruments such as the tabla ...

You’d hardly imagine they have spent the past four and half decades playing marimbas, drums, xylophones, timpani, glockenspiels or any of the multiple percussion instruments that she has mastered.

It is not just training on one instrument. Percussionists need to know how to play many, including timpani, bass and snare drums, cymbals, triangle and mallet instruments like the xylophone ...