A percussion instrument is any musical instrument that’s played by being struck or scraped – that could be by a beater like a drum stick, by the player’s hand, or by another instrument. As you might ...

Knowing the established rhythms of other percussion instruments, such as the mridangam drum, is the key to learning the morsing. Both in and out of ensemble playing, the morsing is also used for ...

A collection of over 2,500 instruments, some antique and some modern, lives in the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, a large but little-known resource for the University of Michigan community ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to the varied, explosive, resonant sounds of instruments struck, shaken, pounded, scratched. In the past, we’ve chosen the five minutes ...

The repertoire for percussion quartets is fairly large, DeHart said, but the first work was only written in the 1940s, “So it’s less than a hundred years old. We don’t have the great ...