Percussion instrument

Percussion instruments are music instruments played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped, hence the "percussive" name. They are perhaps the oldest form of musical instruments, rivaled only by vocal. Percussion instruments play not only rhythm, but also melody and harmony, and percussion could also be the only category of instruments that has musical notation in all three of the traditional clefs (treble, bass and rhythm- though sometimes bass clef is simply substituted for rhythm clef).

See also

• folk instrument
• drum (including a list of drums)
• drum beat (including a list of drum beats)
• klopotec
• Latin-American percussion
• orchestral percussion
• Percussive Arts Society
• vocal percussion
• tuned percussion