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Percussion is music involving drums and other instruments such as gongs, bells, cymbals, rattles, and tambourines. The instruments themselves are also called percussion.

Percussion instruments keep the rhythm, make special sounds and add excitement and color. Unlike most of the other players in the orchestra, a percussionist will usually play many different instruments in one piece of music.

: a device (such as a violin, piano, or flute) used to make music.

Musical mediums of performance are defined as the voices, instruments, and other entities needed to perform a piece of music, such as a children's chorus, electronic organ ensemble, flute, orchestra, or a soprano voice.

Based on clinical use there are three types of percussion – comparative, topographic and auscultatory.

Percussion is a manual technique used by respiratory physiotherapists to improve airway clearance by mobilizing secretions in one or more lung segments to the central airways. Percussion over an affected area produces an energy wave, which is transmitted to the lungs and airways.

It is based on the principle of setting tissue and spaces in between at vibration. The sound thus generated is used to determine if the tissue is healthy or pathological.

Even acoustic musicians will have some way of keeping the rhythm in their music, whether by using their hands and their guitar to create a beat or by tapping their feet. Percussion instruments are crucial in keeping the rhythm and the timing of the music.

German archaeologists have found mammoth bone and swan bone flutes dating back to 30,000 to 37,000 years old in the Swabian Alps. The flutes were made in the Upper Paleolithic age, and are more commonly accepted as being the oldest known musical instruments.

a mechanical tool or implement, especially one used for delicate or precision work: surgical instruments. a contrivance or apparatus for producing musical sounds: a stringed instrument.

Vocal Medium is the oldest and still most popular of all instruments. Instrumental Medium pertains to the different instruments played by musicians. Two classifications are bowed and plucked.

tim·​bre ˈtam-bər ˈtim- : the quality of a sound or musical tone determined by its overtones and different for each voice or instrument.