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A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. The term usually applies to an object used in a rhythmic context or with musical intent. The word "percussion" has evolved from Latin terms: "percussio" (which translates as "to beat, strike" in the musical sense, rather than the violent action), and "percussus" (which is a noun meaning "a beating"). As a noun in contemporary English it is described as "the collision of two bodies to produce a sound". The usage of the term is not unique to music, but all known and common uses of the word, "percussion", appear to share a similar lineage beginning with the original Latin: "percussus". In a musical context then, the term "percussion instruments" may have been coined originally to describe family of instruments including drums, rattles, metal plates, or wooden blocks which musicians would beat or strike (as in a collision) to produce sound.
Agogo
Agogo
Agogo is an instrument, used in Brazilian music, made of two metal bells of different sizes. Usually played with wooden sticks.
Bell
Bell
Make sweet sounds ring with our Camel bells, Elephant bells, Cow Bells & Clam bells. Choose from our unique selection of shapes and sounds.
Bell Tree
Bell Tree
Graduated solid brass bells and hand carved stands. No watering necessary for these trees.
Blocks
Blocks
Tone blocks, simply wonderful!
Bones
Bones
Hardwood percussion instrument fashioned after animal bones.
Castanet
Castanet
Castanets consists of a pair of concave shells joined on one edge by string. These are held in the hand and used to produce clicks for rhythmic accents or a ripping or rattling sound consisting of a rapid series of clicks.
Caxixi
Caxixi
Caxixi are essential if playing the Brazilian berimbau, but widely applicable percussion for any style of music.
Chimes
Chimes
Bar Chimes, Energy Chimes, Hand Cymbals, Manjera, Talams, Tingsha Bells.
Crescent Clacker
Crescent Clacker
Shake your groove thang with this hardwood jingle crescent clacker.
Cuíca
Cuíca
Pronounced (kwik-a) Also known as a puita, boi or onca. Cuica, most closely associated with Brazilian Samba music.
Cymbals
Cymbals
Splash, Crash or bash your cymbals. Choose from Classic Style for Jazz or Raw for Rock!
Devil Chasers
Devil Chasers
The Devil Chaser, also known as Buzz sticks are split bamboo sticks can be played in or used to scare away spirits or nosey neighbors.
Donkey Call
Donkey Call
The Vibraslap or Rattle Clap is also called a Donkey’s Call. It is meant to emulate the original sounds made by rattling the loose teeth in a dried out horse’s jawbone.
Dorje & Bell
Dorje & Bell
In Buddism the bell represents wisdom and the feminine aspect and the dorje represents the creative, forceful, male energy.
Frog Rasp
Frog Rasp
Hand carved wooden imitations of the real thing. Make awesome Frog-Like sounds by stroking their backs with the large end of the playing stick. G-rrib-it.
Gongs
Gongs
Brass gongs for all occasions - Tibetan and Chinese
Hand Jingles & Cymbals
Hand Jingles & Cymbals
Hand Jingles include Hatheli, sleigh bells, Sonajero and Confetti Bells.
Kalimba
Kalimba
The Kalimda or thumb piano originates in Western Africa. It is also known as the mbira or likembe.
Khartal
Khartal
A khartal or kartal is a percussion instrument of India. It is a block of wood with jingles. Two khartals are a used in one hand of the musician. These pieces are not connected in any way, but they can be clapped together at high speeds to make fast complex beats.
Kokinko
Kokinko
The kokinko is a small percussion instrument that makes a clacking sound.  It can be clacked slowly or rapidly to add percussion accents to any music.
Monk Bells
Monk Bells
A bell with wooden clapper that bobs back and forth on a metal tongue creating a unique sound.
Monkey Drums
Monkey Drums
The Monkey Drum is two-headed drum on a stick with two corded bead beaters that strike the heads when spun.
Rain Sticks
Rain Sticks
A hollow stick that creates the soothing, relaxing sound of rain. Crafted from Bamboo or PVC with a wood grain finish.
Ratchet
Ratchet
The Ratchet is a wooden instrument that creates a loud clack-clack-clack-clack when spun.
Rhythm Sticks
Rhythm Sticks
Rhythm Sticks are also know as claves. Beat and tap together to create unlimited rhythms.
Scrapers
Scrapers
The Scraper creates a loud rasp sound when you hold the striker and run it over the washboard surface of the block.
Shakere
Shakere
The Shakere is a hand held percussion instrument made from a hollowed out gourd, covered with beads or seeds.
Shakers
Shakers
Cabasa, Egg Shakers, Fruit Shakers, Maracas, Rattles and Shakere.
Spoons
Spoons
Shaped like a spoon these percussion instruments can be slapped on the leg or hand.
Spring Drum
Spring Drum
A simple tube drum that has a spring dangling from a Fiberskyn head. Makes a variety of special effects sounds.
Stir Drum
Stir Drum
The Stir drum has a beater that is drawn in a stirring motion around the inside to create a series of staccato clacks. 
Televi
Televi
A Televi is two small natural wooden balls filled with beads and connected by a string. One ball is held in the hand and the other is swung from side-to-side around the hand, creating a "clack" upon impact.
Tic Tok Clapper
Tic Tok Clapper
The Tic Tok Clapper employs a metal bar that slides back and forth ticking and tocking off the insides of this wooden handheld instrument.
Tong
Tong
A tong is 2 wooden balls attached by springs to a colorfully painted handle.
Wah Wah Tube
Wah Wah Tube
Get your Wah-Wah on with this unique sounding percussion instrument.
 


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