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Please submit sites with informational content about the Indonesian instrument, the angklung.

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Used to describe instruments played either by striking a membrane such as a drum or a piece of hard material such as wood, metal or plastic (for example, a cymbal), or by shaking (such as a tambourine). They can also be divided into instruments producing sounds of definite pitch such as tympani, and those that do not, such as the snare drum.

Angklung

Please submit sites with informational content about the Indonesian instrument, the angklung.

Retail sites offering at home shopping should be sent to Shopping

The angklung is a percussion musical instrument from Indonesia. It is made entirely of bamboo and uses no metal or nails in its construction. Each angklung sounds a single note, thus requiring an ensemble to play music, similar to hand bells.

Bells

Sites primarily for the sale of bells and accessories should submit to Shopping/Music/Instruments/Percussion/Bells

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Berimbau

The berimbau is an Afro-Brazilian instrument traditionally used in capoeira, a martial arts style that incorporates music and dance.

The instrument consists of a wooden stick strung with a steel string to form a bow, with a gourd or small woven basket serving as a resonator, a coin or flat stone, and a shaker called a caxixi. The string is struck with a thin stick.

Cymbal

Online stores and sites that sell cymbals should be submitted to Shopping: Music: Instruments: Percussion.

Percussion instrument made of a circular brass plate, which may be played in pairs by striking together, or struck with mallets or sticks.

Directories

Links pages, to percussion pages or individual artists.

Drums

Online stores selling drums and accessories should be submitted to Shopping: Music: Instruments: Percussion.

Websites about drums, including instrument and instructional information, drum building, drummers, and organizations.

Ensembles

For performance groups composed mostly or entirely of percussion instruments.

Magazines and E-zines

For percussion and drums magazines and e-zines.

Makers

Online stores featuring handcrafted percussion instruments should be submitted to Shopping: Music: Instruments: Percussion.

Manufacturers' sites should be submitted to Arts: Music: Instruments: Percussion: Manufacturers.

Information about handcrafted percussion instruments.

Mallet Percussion

Online stores selling mallet percussion instruments should be submitted to Shopping: Music: Instruments: Percussion.

For sites that feature one or more of the instruments in the mallet family - marimba, xylophone, orchestra bells (glockenspiel), chimes (tubular bells), vibraphone (vibes), or crotales.

Manufacturers

For companies making percussion instruments for sale by wholesalers and dealers. Also see Arts/Music/Instruments/Percussion/Drums/Manufacturers/ .

Musical Glass

Glass instruments are often tuned by being filled with water and played by rubbing wet fingers around the rims.

Organizations

A listing of percussionist and drummer associations

Percussionists

If the musician specializes in a particular instrument, the site should be submitted to that instrument's category instead.

Musical artists who are primarily multi-instrument percussionists.

Regional and Ethnic

Sites about regional and ethnic percussion instruments.

Rubboard

The traditional laundry washboard, also referred to as a rub board, was sometimes hung from the neck by string and has evolved into a worn corrugated vest. The vest is known as a rubboard or, in Cajun French, a frottoir. Both are played with scratchers of the musician's choice, such as bottle openers, sewing thimbles, and gloves with metal objects glued to the fingers. The simple washboard is often played in jug bands while the frottoir and the accordion are staples of Zydeco.

Shekere

The shekere is a beaded gourd rattle with origins in West Africa.

Spoons

Spoons are clapper instruments. They are played in pairs, usually with a pair in each hand.

Tilaphone

Please submit sites dealing with constructing, playing, or composing for the tilaphone.

The tilaphone, invented by Michael Doherty, is a percussion instrument constructed of rows of tiles made of stone, ceramic, and porcelain.

Waterphone

Invented by Richard A. Waters in the late 1960s, the waterphone is composed of a chamber and pipes containing water. It can be played with mallets, a bow, or by hand.

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