The gong , also known as the tamtam , is a very large metal plate that hangs suspended from a metal pipe. It looks similar to a cymbal and is also untuned, but is much larger and has a raised center. To play it, you hit the center with a soft mallet.
Depending on how hard you hit it, you can make a deafening crash or the softest flicker of sound. Chimes are metal tubes of different lengths that are hung from a metal frame.
When you strike the tubes with a mallet, they sound like the ringing bells of a church. Each chime sounds a different pitch. These fun wooden instruments come from Spain and are used to punctuate the music with a distinctive clickety-clack.
Castanets are made of two pieces of wood tied together. To play them, you hold them with your fingers and click the two pieces of wood together. The celesta looks like a tiny upright piano and sounds a lot like the glockenspiel with its delicate bell-like tone. Celestas usually have a keyboard of 49—65 keys.
As with the piano, you make sound on the celesta by pressing down on a key with your finger, which lifts a hammer inside and strikes a metal bar. You can play many notes at once using both your hands. Experience a fun and unique video series from the Oregon Symphony designed for pre-K through elementary aged children and their families to experience popular story books.
A couple of times every week, enjoy one-minute videos created for you, by your Oregon Symphony musicians. Join the Oregon Symphony for a collective musical celebration of the people who are essential in our lives. Other Percussion Instruments Timpani Timpani look like big polished bowls or upside-down teakettles, which is why they're also called kettledrums. Xylophone The xylophone originally came from Africa and Asia, but has a Greek name that means "wood sound. Cymbals Cymbals are the biggest noisemakers of the orchestra.
Triangle You've probably played a triangle yourself at one time or another. Snare Drum The snare drum is a smallish drum made of wood or brass with drumheads made of calfskin or plastic stretched over both ends of a hollow cylinder.
Bass Drum The bass drum , like the double bass, is the biggest member of the percussion family and therefore makes the lowest sounds. Tambourine Have you played one of these? Maracas Maracas come from Mexico. Gong The gong , also known as the tamtam , is a very large metal plate that hangs suspended from a metal pipe. Chimes Chimes are metal tubes of different lengths that are hung from a metal frame. Castanets These fun wooden instruments come from Spain and are used to punctuate the music with a distinctive clickety-clack.
Celesta The celesta looks like a tiny upright piano and sounds a lot like the glockenspiel with its delicate bell-like tone. Symphony Stortime Experience a fun and unique video series from the Oregon Symphony designed for pre-K through elementary aged children and their families to experience popular story books. Pitched Percussion is any instrument that has actually musical pitch like the piano. Pitched percussion instruments include the xylophone, marimba, vibraphone and timpani.
A vibraphone is a double row of tuned metal bars that sit above a resonator with a motor-driven, rotating vane that produce a tremolo effect. The vibraphone is a popular solo percussion instrument along with the marimba. The debate continues as to which is a more efficient method. In the s it even became a featured instrument in ragtime, particularly in the music of percussionist Bob Becker and his ensemble NEXUS.
In Senegal, xylophones have been used as part of initiation ceremonies, played by young girls and boys. Among other practical uses, it was also used to scare birds, monkeys, and other pests out of the gardens. In Latin America, the xylophone is actually interchangeable with the marimba, and has been used in Guatemala since before the 17th century, when it was first documented. When Guatemalan independence was celebrated in , the marimba became the national instrument.
The xylophone is often used to to effect the sound of clanking bones, making it as relevant in a Halloween movie as in jazz.
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