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  2. Snare drum - Wikipedia

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    The snare drum (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin. Snare drums are often used in orchestras, concert bands, marching bands, parades, drumlines, drum corps, and

  3. Cajón - Wikipedia

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    Sheets of 13 to 19 mm (1 ⁄ 2 to 3 ⁄ 4 inch) thick wood are generally used for five sides of the box. A thinner sheet of plywood is nailed on as the sixth side, and acts as the striking surface or head. The striking surface of the cajón drum is commonly referred to as the tapa. [1] A sound hole is cut on the back side.

  4. List of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    Slit drum: Both 111.24 Idiophone Snare drum: Unpitched 211.212.1 Membranophone Song bells: Pitched Idiophone Sounding stone: China Idiophone Spoon: Greece, Russia, Turkey Unpitched 111.14 Idiophone Steelpan: Trinidad & Tobago Pitched 111.241.12 and 111.241.22 Idiophone [7] Also known as steel drum: Stomp box: Unpitched 111.24 Idiophone Stone ...

  5. Orchestral percussion - Wikipedia

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    The snare drum is one of the most easily recognizable instruments in the entire percussion section. Also called the side drum, the snare drum is often used as a means of accenting rhythms from other families of instruments within the orchestra or as a soloistic type, particularly in pieces that may have a "military" type theme or sound to them.

  6. That's All for Everyone - Wikipedia

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    Buckingham overdubbed his own piano and bass parts and also played along to Fleetwood's drum track using a kick drum, snare drum, and a Kleenex box, the latter of which was heavily compressed. [ 1 ] As a Christmas gift, engineer Hernan Rojas gave Buckingham a charango , an instrument from the Andes with triple coursed strings and an armadillo ...

  7. Grip (percussion) - Wikipedia

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    Traditional grip is almost exclusively used to play the snare drum, especially the marching snare drum, and often the drum kit. Traditional grip is more popular in jazz drumming than in other drum kit styles due to the early jazz drummers evolving their style from marching and military styles and instrumentation, [ 1 ] although it is also used ...

  8. Open-handed drumming - Wikipedia

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    Another reason being the use of two bass drums and/or four or more rack toms in which case a stock hi-hat gets to be (uncomfortably) far away from the snare drum otherwise. Open-handed drumming in metal can include the use of a left-side ride, which has been used by drummers such as Gene Hoglan to play intricate stickings across two rides with ...

  9. Tom drum - Wikipedia

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    The sizes that Krupa chose became the "standard" for many decades and they were 13 × 9″ (mounted) and 16 × 16″ (floor). Later, mounted on three (or, if larger than 16 × 16″, four) legs were attached to the floor tom designs. Together with a snare drum and a bass drum of varying size, the combination of the four drums became a "set".