| 单词 | percussive instrument |
| 释义 | percussive instrument (once / 984943 pages) n WORD FAMILY percussive instrument: percussive instruments USAGE EXAMPLESSitting amid a tangle of wires and electronic equipment, Mr. Cappelli began using his uboingee as a percussive instrument, before switching to the acoustic guitar. New York Times(Sep 09, 2015) The Sextet is an exploration of the ways the duration of notes played on percussive instruments can be both stretched and curtailed. New York Times(Jan 19, 2013) “And I’ve used recordings of the sounds of ravens as percussive instruments.” New York Times(Nov 09, 2012) n a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another Syn|Hypo|Hyper percussion instrument bones, castanets, clappers, finger cymbals a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance bell, chime, gonga percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument cymbala percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; makes a loud crashing sound when hit with a drumstick or when two are struck together drum, membranophone, tympana musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end glockenspiel, orchestral bellsa percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers gong, tam-tama percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick kettle, kettledrum, timpani, tympani, tympanuma large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it lagerphonean Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground maracaa percussion instrument consisting of a hollow gourd containing pebbles or beans; often played in pairs marimba, xylophonea percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets forte-piano, piano, pianofortea keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds rain sticka percussion instrument that is made from a dried cactus branch that is hollowed out and filled with small pebbles and capped at both ends; makes the sound of falling rain when tilted; origin was in Chile where tribesmen used it in ceremonies to bring rain steel druma concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum; has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin) trianglea percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle vibes, vibraharp, vibraphonea percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound bass drum, gran casaa large drum with two heads; makes a sound of indefinite but very low pitch bongo, bongo druma small drum; played with the hands carillonset of bells hung in a bell tower grand, grand pianoa piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs handbella bell that is held in the hand high hat, high-hat cymbalcymbals that are operated by a foot pedal Pianola, mechanical piano, player pianoa mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys side drum, snare, snare druma small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head tabor, taboura small drum with one head of soft calfskin tamboura drum tambourinea shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides tenor drum, tom-tomany of various drums with small heads timbrelsmall hand drum similar to a tambourine; formerly carried by itinerant jugglers upright, upright pianoa piano with a vertical sounding board zillone of a pair of small metallic cymbals worn on the thumb and middle finger; used in belly dancing in rhythm with the dance instrument, musical instrument any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds |
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