A freindly well illustrated guide showing you how to play the most common and most unusual percussion instruments. Guaranteed to be useful to anybody wanting to be involved with percussion whether at home, in a baby or toddler music class, in the nursery or at school.

Find out the difference between a glockenspiel and a xylophone, how to say the word 'guiro' and how you hold claves. Also included are pronunciations and origins and the different sound effects you can make and how to care and store your percussion instruments.

Percussion instruments included:
Ankle/wrist bells, basket rattles, box rattles, chocolos, clapper drums, headless tambourines, jingle bells, jingle sticks, maracas, rainmakers, vibraslaps, beaters and sticks, slit drums, temple blocks, tone blocks, tulip blocks, wooden agogos, wood blocks, agogo bells, banana gongs, burma gongs, cow bells, suspended cymbals, triangles, bass drums, bongos, congas, goblet drums, hand drums, ocean drums, roto toms, snare drums, tambourines, timbales, talking drums, tom-toms, chime bars, glockenspiels, hand/tone chimes, metallophones, tubular bells, xylophones, binasaras, castanets, claves, cymbals, finger cymbals, flexatones, khartals, slapsticks, tibetan bells, wind chimes, afuches, bell trees, chekeres, guiros, multi guiros and sandpaper blocks.



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