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Difference between pitched and unpitched percussion instruments.

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Answer 1

Question:-

Difference between pitched and unpitched percussion instruments

Answer:-

All percussion is technically pitched. Therefore, “pitched percussion” and “unpitched percussion” are misnomers.

Percussion instruments do, however, vary in clarity of pitch (clear or unclear, and everything in between) and whether the pitches are specified by the composer (instruments that are typically written for with pitch specification I will call determinately pitched, and those that are not indeterminately pitched). And while there is a trend where instruments with a clear pitch are determinately pitched and vice versa, that is not always the case. Percussion instruments anywhere on the pitch clarity spectrum can be determinate or indeterminate. Not to mention, some instruments aren’t always one or the other; instruments that can be either based on context exist. Likewise, the lists of determinate instruments and of indeterminate instruments indeed contain instruments of both clear and unclear pitch.

Examples of instruments whose pitches are:

Clear and typically determinate: keyboard percussion (though crotales in some contexts may lose their clarity of pitch), steel drums, thumb piano, timpani,

Clear and typically indeterminate: anvils, metal bowls, cowbells, finger cymbals, wooden instruments other than marimba or xylophone, glass bottles, smaller drums

Unclear and typically determinate: crotales (depending on context), timpani (low register)

Unclear and typically indeterminate: most drums (especially larger ones), cymbals, shakers, triangles, tambourines, tam tams, junk metals (especially those with more “splatty” sound)

Either determinate or indeterminate, depending on context: nipple gongs, almglocken, rototoms, bell plates

Answer 2

Answer:

Pitched instrument:-

===>A pitched instrument is used to produce musical notes of one or more pitches as opposite to an unpitched which instrument which is used to produce sounds of in definite pitch.

Explanation:

Unpitched instrument:-

===>unpitched instrument covers all percussion instrument that are not turned to specific pitches.

===>this includes instruments such as maracas, cymbals,guiro, and bass drum