X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Percussion instrument


Blue Shaddy

Having lived in the city of Perth for some 14 years and meeting band members, Malaysian born Arun Satgunasingam (drummer and percussionist) and percussionist Sri Lankan born Kanchana Karunaratna, the band has been exposed to new influences which leads to what Blue Shaddy are today.

Bontempi

The company continues to make low-priced musical instruments aimed at the educational and toy market, including keyboards, guitars, drum kits and various items of tuned percussion.

Tamborera

The most important instruments in tamborera music are the percussion, which consist of several characteristic instruments: tamboras, furro, charrasca, and maracas.


Black on Both Sides

Songwriters: D. Smith
Sample: "Fear Not for Men" by Fela Kuti
Bass: Mos Def
Congas: Mos Def
Keyboards: Weldon Irvine
Percussion: Mos Def

Cut Lunch

Models had formed in Melbourne in 1978 by members from Teenage Radio Stars and JAB (Johnny, Ash, Bohdan), after some line-up changes they were Andrew Duffield on keyboards, Mark Ferrie on bass guitar, Janis Friedenfelds (aka Johnny Crash) on drums and percussion, and Sean Kelly on vocals and lead guitar.

Drum screen

It is a transparent acoustic panel or system of panels that are used around drums, percussion instruments, and possibly other loud musical instruments in order to acoustically separate unusually loud instruments from other musical instruments and vocalists that may be in close proximity.

Gary Seligson

Gary Seligson (born 14 September 1961) is an American drummer and percussionist from West Orange, New Jersey.

Green Echo

Zeca left the band, while the brothers Leo (Guitar) and Rod (Keyboards, Percussion and Bass) joined in, and some months after, bass duties were undertaken by Katharsis’ vocalist Sarmento (Bass, Tenor Sax and Didgeridoo).

Happy Apple

The name Happy Apple comes from a Fisher-Price toy from the seventies, which King often uses as an auxiliary percussion instrument.

Harballabh Fair

There are three categories for competition, namely: Vocal, Instrumental (Non-Percussion) and Instrumental (Percussion) with two age groups in each category: Juniors (Yuva Varg - between 13 to 19 years) and Seniors (Varishth Varg - 19 to 25 years) and three prizes in each category: First, Second and Third.

Joseph Horovitz

His works include 16 ballets, including Alice in Wonderland (1953), 2 one-act operas (The Dumb Wife, libretto Peter Shaffer; Gentlemen’s Island, libretto Gordon Snell), and concertos for violin, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, euphonium, tuba and percussion, as well as a popular and often performed jazz concerto for harpsichord or piano.

Local and/or General

Models had formed in Melbourne in 1978 by members from Teenage Radio Stars and JAB, after some line-up changes they were Andrew Duffield on keyboards, Mark Ferrie on bass guitar, Janis Friedenfelds (aka Johnny Crash) on drums and percussion, and Sean Kelly on vocals and lead guitar.

The Peth

Ben was in an early incarnation of the Super Furry Animals along with Ifans while Jenkins frequently plays percussion for the Super Furries and has appeared on all the group's albums since 2001's Rings Around the World as well as contributing to the 1999 single "Northern Lites".

Tongatong

A tongatong is a percussion instrument made of various lengths of bamboo, which is found in the Kalinga province of the Philippines.

Wee Tam and the Big Huge

Rose Simpson - violin ("Log Cabin Home in the Sky"); percussion ("Maya", "Cousin Caterpillar" & "The Iron Stone"); backing vocals


see also

Bhaja Caves

These caves also provide important proof regarding the history of the Tabla, an Indian percussion instrument, since carvings from 200 BCE show a woman playing tabla and another performing a dance.

Purdue Big Bass Drum

The Purdue Big Bass Drum is a percussion instrument played by the All-American Marching Band of Purdue University.

Tetzilacatl

The tetzilacatl was an Aztec percussion instrument.

Timbale

Timbales or timbal, a Cuban and Latin American percussion instrument

Tock-tock

Claves - a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of short, thick dowels.

Steelpan - a pitched percussion instrument, also known as a steel drum

Traditional Cambodian musical instruments

Roneat (រនាត) - trough-resonated keyboard percussion instrument; generally played with two mallets and used in Khmer classical and theater music