This is a list of percussion instruments.

Tuned percussion

• Antique cymbals
• Celesta
• Chimes (a.k.a. tubular bells)
• Clavinet
• Crotales
• Gong
• Glass harmonica
• Hammered dulcimer
• Handbells
• Hang
• Lithophone
• Marimba
• Marimbaphone
• Metallophone
• Orchestra bells (a.k.a. glockenspiel or bell lyre)
• The harp stop and other effects on the organ
• Piano
• rototoms
• steel drums
• Timpani (a.k.a kettle drum)
• Vibraphone
• Xylophone
• Xylorimba

Untuned percussion

• Bass drum
• Bell tree
• Bones (instrument)
• Chime tree (a.k.a. mark tree)
• China cymbal
• crash cymbals
• Cymbal
• Gong (has a definite pitch, but is not often tuned)
• Hi-hat
• Kick drum (see drum kit)
• Pogo cello
• Ride cymbal
• Sizzle cymbal
• Snare drum
• Splash cymbal
• Spoon (musical instrument)
• Suspended cymbal
• Tabla
• taiko drum
• Tamtam
• Tenor drum
• Tom-toms

Auxiliary percussion

• anvil
• dayereh zangi
• Doyra
• Frame drum
• Finger cymbals
• Flexatone
• Glass harp
• Jam blocks
• Lagerphone
• Marching machine
• mendoza (a.k.a. monkey stick)
• ratchet
• rattle
• Sand blocks
• Siren
• Sleigh bells (a.k.a jingle bells)
• Slide whistle
• Tambourine
• Taxi Horn
• Temple blocks
• Thunder Machine
• triangle
• Typewriter
• Vibraslap
• whip (a.k.a. woodcrack or slapstick)
• Whistle
• Wind machine
• Wood block

Latin/Afro-Caribbean percussion

• Atabaque
• Bàtá
• Bongo drums
• Brake drum
• Cabasa
• Castanets
• Cajón (box drums)
• Claves
• Conga
• cowbell
• Cuíca
• Djembe
• Güiro
• Jawbone
• Maracas
• Pandeiro
• Scraper
• Shekere
• tambora
• Timbales
• Zill

See also

• Brass instruments
• Drum kit
• Gamelan
• Latin percussion
• List of membranophones
• Percussion instruments
• String instruments
• Tuned percussion
• Untuned percussion
• Woodwind instruments

External links

• Percussion instruments
• Babel Audio - Free Samples of Percussion Instruments – Free audio samples of ethnic percussion instruments for musicians and sound designers.