High-Quality Percussion

Percussion instruments are musical instruments that are played by being struck or hit by sticks, mallets or by the hands. The percussion family is the oldest family of musical instruments (unless you include the human voice as a musical instruments).

The percussion section of an orchestra most commonly contains instruments such as timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle and tambourine; as well as keyboard instruments, such as the celesta, glockenspiel, marimba, xylophone, and vibraphone. Percussion instruments are most commonly divided into two classes: Pitched percussion instruments, which produce notes with an identifiable pitch, and un-pitched percussion instruments, which produce notes or sounds without an identifiable pitch. In marching band and drum corps, the percussion section is divided in two groups: the battery (marching drums) and the pit (stationary instruments at the front of the field.