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Orchestral percussion instruments

  • Bass drumThe Turkish davul emerged as a cylindrical drum with two thin heads stretched over hoops and attached to a narrow shell.
  • CymbalReliefs from the Armenian Highlands dating to the 7th century BC show early representations of cymbals. These images appear alongside depictions in Larsa…
  • XylophoneThe instrument has obscure ancient origins. Nettl proposed that it originated in southeast Asia and came to Africa c. AD 500 when a group of Austronesian…