UnpitchedPercussionInstrument (2019-09-16)

DDEX Data Dictionary for Allowed Value Sets, 2019-09-16

UnpitchedPercussionInstrument

Percussion Instruments that are not made to have certain pitch. Played percussively rather than melodically.

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Parents	PercussionInstrument	Instruments that are struck either with sticks, mallets, or hands to produce sound.
Instances	Anvil	An anvil struck with a hammer or metal mallet. Brake drums or various metal objects are often used in place of an actual anvil.
	Atumpan	An African talking drum used by the Ghanaian Akan people. Typically played in pairs, the Atumpan (pl.) provide the bass part in Adowa dance ensembles.
	BassDrum_Concert	A large, low-pitched, skin-headed drum, mounted on a frame and struck with a large (usually wool or felt) mallet.
	Bata	A two-headed, hour glass-shaped drum, with one head larger than the other. Used by natives of Yoruba.
	BellTree	Various pitched bells, arranged one inside of another and mounted on a stand. A metal mallet is run across the bells to make a sweeping mystical sound.
	Bendir	A single-head, wooden frame drum from Northern Africa and Southwest Asia.
	Bodhran	An Irish Frame Drum.
	BodyPercussion	Percussive sounds created by striking or slapping the body.
	Bombo	The Bombo Criollo is a Latin American bass drum with skin heads that have fur still on them.
	BomboLeguero	An Argentinian drum with a shell made from a hollowed tree trunk and a head made from animal skin.
	Bones	Two bones that click clack together. Used throughout many cultures.
	Bottles	Bottles pitched by filling with different amounts of water. Sound is produced by striking the bottle or blowing across the opening of the bottle.
	Cabasa	A cylindrical piece of wood with washboard-like metal material wrapped around it, and strings of loose, moveable, metal beads wrapped around the corrugated metal material. Sound is produced when the beads are moved across the corrugated metal. The modern, metal cabasa was developed in the 1960s by Martin Cohen as a variation on traditional African instruments. Commonly used in Latin Music.
	Caixa	A Brazilian, snare-like instrument.
	Caja	Meaning box in Spanish, Caja is a small drum held between the legs and played with the hands.
	Cajon	A wooden box instrument originating from Peru with a thin side which is hit and slapped by the performer.
	Calabash	A Cameroonian instrument made out half of a dried Calabash fruit. The shell like dried fruit is struck with the hand and dragged across sticks to cause the shell to vibrate.
	Castanet	Small shell like pieces of would strung together in pairs clicked and clacked together with the hands.
	Caxixi	Various sized shakers with wood shells attached to the bottom of small woven baskets.
	Chocalho	A Portuguese shaker with metal jingles.
	Clapstick	Two sticks clicked together. They produce a sound similar to claves. Used by the Aborigines.
	Claves	A pair of hardwood sticks used to make a hollow sounds when struck together.
	Claypot	A Clay Pot struck with a mallet.
	Cowbell	A metal bell struck with a stick. Used commonly in Latin music. Favored by Christopher Walken.
	CrashCymbal	A lathed and hammered disc of metal that is struck with a stick on the edge of the cymbal.
	Cuica	A Brazilian single-head drum. A stick attached to the head on the inside of the drum is rubbed to make a squeaking sound, and the other hand presses on the drum head to change the pitch.
	Cymbals	Two lathed and hammered discs of metal that are struck against one another.
	Daf	A large Middle Eastern frame drum.
	Damaru	A small, double-headed, hourglass-shaped drum used in Hindu and Tibetan Buddhist rituals.
	Davul	A large, two-headed, Turkish drum, played with mallets and sticks.
	Dayereh	A medium-sized Middle Eastern frame drum with jingles.
	Defi	A large Greek tambourine popularly used in music of the Epirus region.
	Dhol	Dhol can refer to many different two headed drums in India and Pakistan.
	Dholak	A two-headed Indian folk drum with a large head and a small head.
	Djembe	A rope-tuned, single-head, hourglass-shaped drum originating in West Africa. It is a loud, versatile, solo drum.
	Dohol	A large yet shallow two headed drum originating in the middle east.
	Doumbek	A single-headed, hourglass-shaped drum, with a high ringing pitch. It has ties to drums of many cultures across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
	DrumSticks	Drum sticks. They can hit stuff or be clicked together.
	Dunun	The name for a family of West African drums. The drums have rawhide skin heads on both sides and are rope-tensioned.
	ElephantBell	An Asian bell with a half dome of solid metal and a bottom portion of metal tines. There is a dangling metal piece inside the bell which strikes the sides of the bell.
	FingerClicks	The Percussion-Unpitched Instrument Finger Clicks.
	FingerCymbals	Teeny tiny cymbals that are sometimes attached to the fingers. They are attached to one another by a string and are struck together.
	FingerSnaps	Snap yo fingers! Do ya step! You can do it all by yoself!
	Flexatone	A thin sheet of metal attached to a handle. There are two beaters that are attached to the sheet of metal that strike the metal when the instrument is shaken. The performer bends the metal sheet to change the pitch.
	FootStomp	The Percussion-Unpitched Instrument Foot Stomp.
	Frog	A wooden frog with ridges on its back. A stick is dragged across the ridges to produce a croaking noise.
	Ganga	Also known as tbel, a Ganga is a large double-headed drum, played with one curved stick and one straight stick. It originated from Morocco.
	Gong	A circular tuned metal plate originating in Southeast Asia.
	Guacharaca	A thin hollow instrument made from the cane-like trunk of a palm tree. Ridges are carved into the cane and it is played by dragging a metal brush across the ridges.
	Guache	A large metal shaker instrument from the Caribbean Coast of Colombia.
	Guira	A tin tube with holes punched through it. The tub is scraped with a stiff metal brush. The guira is a Dominican instrument.
	Guiro	A hollow gourd with ridges on one side that are scraped with a small stick.
	HandClaps	The Percussion-Unpitched Instrument Hand Claps.
	HiHatCymbal	Two cymbals pressed together facing opposite ways with their edges touching. They can open and close, and are controlled by a foot pedal.
	JamBlock	Various plastic woodblock like instruments.
	Jawbone	A horse, donkey, or cattle jawbone that has jingles or rattles that make noise when the instrument is struck. Can sometimes be interchanged with a vibraslap.
	Kanjira	A South Indian frame drum with a single or multiple tambourine jingles on the side.
	Katsa	A rattle played by shaking it with one hand and hitting it with the other in the Malagasy music of Madagascar.
	Khamak	A single-headed drum with a string attached to the head which is plucked. Originating in India.
	Khartal	An Indian shaker instrument with tambourine jingles.
	Khol	A North Indian double-headed terracotta pot drum played with the palms and fingers.
	KickDrum	A large, low-pitched drum that is usually a part of a drum set. It rests on its side on the floor and is struck by a beater attached to a foot pedal.
	Knuckles	The Percussion-Unpitched Instrument Knuckles.
	Lokole	A slit drum / log drum. A log with a slit carved in it and played with sticks. Originating in the Congo region.
	Maracas	Wooden rattles used in Latin music. Usually played in pairs.
	Mazhar	A large, heavy tambourine instrument, used in Arabic music. The larger cousin of the riq.
	MetalCans	Metal cans… pretty much how it sounds. You hit them with sticks and stuff.
	MouthPercussion	Slapping the cheeks and mouth while manipulating the tongue and cheeks to change the resonant pitch of the mouth. See Bobby McFerrin.
	Mridangam	An ancient Indian instrument with two rope-tensioned heads.
	Muharsing	An Indian Jaw Harp.
	Naal	An Indian two-headed, lug-tensioned drum used in folk and wedding music.
	Nagara	Various African rope-tensioned, single-headed drums with an upside down teardrop shape.
	OboromDrum	A Nigerian slit drum.
	Pandeiro	A Brazilian tambourine like frame drum.
	PotsAndPans	Pots and Pans hit with sticks or mallets.
	Qarkabeb	Moroccan hand cymbals that are tied to the fingers and clanged together.
	Rainstick	A hollow wooden stick with beads inside that trickle down and sound like rain when the stick is turned upside down.
	Ratchet	A crank-operated gear plucks wooden tines that slap against the next ridge in the gear to make a clicking sound.
	Rattle	A hollow sphere on a stick with beads inside.
	RecoReco	A scraper instrument of African origin.
	Repinique	A medium-sized, two-headed drum used in Brazilian Samba Baterias.
	RhythmStick	Drum sticks used together. One of the sticks has ridges.
	RideCymbal	A lathed and hammered disc of metal that is struck with a stick on the face of the cymbal.
	Riq	A small, tambourine-like frame drum used in Arabic music. The smaller cousin of the Mazhar. Unlike many other frame drums, it is often played alone, rather than simultaneously as the player sings. It is typically played dramatically and freely, alternating between being violently shaken above the head and lowered down to the knee.
	Rnga	A Tibetan two-headed drum with a wooden shell.
	Rolmo	Hand cymbals used by Tibetan monks in Buddhist rites. It has a broad central boss and is struck vertically.
	Sabar	A single-headed, long-bodied drum, played with one hand and one stick. It is a traditional drum of the Serer people of Senegal and Gambia.
	SandBlocks	Woodblocks wrapped in sand paper and rubbed together.
	Scratcher	A general term for a guiro-like instrument (any in which sound is produced by scraping its ridges), as well as a specific term for a scratcher used in the musical traditions of Trinidad & Tobago. In the Trini one, a cylinder made from a sheet of aluminum punched with nail holes is scraped with a teethed comb (often an afro pick).
	Shaker	A hollowed instrument with grains or beads inside. When it is shaken, the grains or beads rattle around inside and create noise.
	Shekere	A gourd with a woven net of beads around it. The instrument is shaken to rattle the beads against the dried gourd.
	Sistrum	A sacred, ancient Egyptian instrument consisting of a metal frame with transverse metal rods that rattle when the instrument is shaken. Similar in sound, though definitely not in appearance, to the tambourine. Still used today as a liturgical instrument in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
	Slapstick	Two pieces of wood hinged together so they can be pushed together to make a slapping sound.
	SleighBells	Santa's Reindeer sounding things.
	SnareDrum	A shallow drum with wires stretched across one of the drum heads giving it a 'crack' sound when played.
	SnareDrum_Marching	A snare drum that is deeper than a normal snare drum and is carried by a sling or harness and marched with.
	Spoons	Two spoons held in one hand and clicked together in various ways.
	SpringDrum	A small drum with a long, thin spring attached to one head. The spring sounds like thunder when shaken.
	Sticks	The Percussion-Unpitched Instrument Sticks.
	Surdo	A large bass drum used in Brazilian Baterias.
	SuspendedCymbal	A lathed and hammered disc of metal that is rolled on with mallets to make a whoosh effect.
	Taal	Indian finger cymbals.
	Taarija	A Moroccan drum similar to a Darabuka.
	Tabor	A portable, traditional English snare drum.
	Taiko	A broad range of Japanese percussion instruments. In Japanese, Taiko means drum, but outside of Japan, Taiko generally refers to the Wadaiko forming a Taiko ensemble.
	Tambora	A two-headed drum. Perhaps the most prominent is a type used in Dominican merengue music, traditionally made from old rum barrels. There are many other national variants of the Tambora, from Argentina, Bolivia, and Colombia to Mexico and Venezuela.
	Tamborim	A small Brazilian frame drum of Portuguese and African origin. The instrument is played with a stick and has a very sharp sound.
	Tambourine	A small frame drum with many pairs of jingles. Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me…
	Tar_Percussion	An ancient, single-head frame drum, struck with one hand. Commonly played in the Middle East and North Africa.
	Tarol	A Brazilian snare drum. Shallower than the caixa.
	TenorDrum	A snare drum without the snares.
	Thavil	An Indian barrel-shaped drum used in temple, folk, and Carnatic music.
	ThunderSheet	A large sheet of metal that is shaken to sound like thunder.
	Timbau	A Brazilian hand drum derived from the caxambu drum.
	Tingsha	Tibetan finger cymbals used in Buddhist prayer and rituals. They are very thick, and they produce a unique, long sustaining tone.
	Tompak	A Persian goblet drum. The principal percussion instrument of Persian music.
	Toms	A cylindrical drum with no snares and less tensioned heads.
	Triangle	A metal triangle struck with a metal beater. Makes a ding-a-ling sound.
	Txalaparta	Variously sized planks of wood or stone struck with the butt end of large sticks.
	Udu	A spherical clay pot with an open stem and a big hole on the side. Udu is a Igbo word meaning 'vessel'. The Udu is played by quickly hitting the big hole, which produces a bass sound. The pitch can be changed by adjusting the position of the hand above the upper hole at the top of the stem. Traditionally played by Igbo women for ceremonial use.
	UliUli	Hawaiian feathered gourd rattles, similar to maracas.
	Urumee	An Indian, two-headed, hourglass-shaped drum. The heads are perforated with seven or eight holes.
	Vibraslap	The vibraslap is a percussion instrument consisting of a piece of stiff wire (bent into a U-shape) connecting a wood ball to a hollow box of wood with metal “teeth” inside. The percussionist holds the metal wire in one hand and strikes the ball (usually against the palm of their other hand). The box acts as a resonating body for a metal mechanism placed inside with a number of loosely fastened pins or rivets that vibrate and rattle against the box. The instrument is a modern version of the jawbone.
	Washboard	A washboard performed by scraping the ribbed metal surface. Prominent in the American Southern genres of zydeco, skiffle, jug band music, and old-time music, as well as in early jazz.
	WindChimes	Small metal tubes or bars hung from a piece of wood that produce sound when two of the bars or tubes touch.
	WindMachine	A cylinder of wood that is turned by a crank. The wood is wrapped with a belt that creates friction and a wind-like noise when the crank is turned.
	WobbleBoard	A metal sheet that makes a wobbly whoop noise when shaken. Invented by the Australian musician Rolf Harris and prominently featured in his 1960 novelty song, 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport'.
	WoodBlock	A block of wood with a resonant chamber carved out of the side. The instrument is struck on the top surface with a stick or mallet and it makes a loud clicking or popping sound.
	Zerbaghali	An Afghani folk instrument - a goblet-shaped, single-headed drum.
	ZydecoRubboard	The metal ribbing of a washboard without a frame and hung around the neck. Played like a washboard, with spoon handles, bottle openers, or hands, by strumming, scratching, tapping, and rolling. Used in zydeco music.
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