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PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS

CYMBALS Leather strap SECTIONS OF A MARACA TRIANGLE
fits around
player’s hand

Wooden Hollow,
handle wooden
head
Lead
Pad protects shot
hands from Steel rod bent into Steel beater
vibrations triangular shape
CLAVES CASTANETS

Cord

Thin, convex Hardwood sticks
disk of copper clashed together to
and tin alloy give a sharp crack
Hollowed
wood
Row of bars graduated Metal bar struck
VIBRAPHONE in length and pitch with soft-headed
beater

Metal Damper pedal Metal tube containing Electric cable
frame electrically operated fan
that produces vibrato
(wavering pitch) effect

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