Write a paragraph of about 80-100 words on the origins of a percussion instrument of your choice.
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A percussion instrument is defined as a musical instrument (including the drum, xylophone, and maraca) sounded by striking, shaking, or scraping. Percussion instruments are made of many different materials, such as wood, plastic, or metal, and they come in all shapes and sizes.
Most of the time, when it comes to percussion instruments, people immediately think of a drum. But there are many more types of percussion instruments in the world, originating from far and wide. Shakers, sticks, blocks, bells, tambourines, maracas, castanets, and xylophones are all percussion instruments.
The cabasa is a percussion instrument often used in Latin music made from a steel ball chain wrapped around a cylinder, with a handle sticking out of it. It is played by pressing the palm of one hand against the chain while rotating the cylinder by the handle with the other hand. It produces a metallic scraping sound.
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. The percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments, following the human voice.[1]
The percussion section of an orchestra most commonly contains instruments such as the timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle and tambourine. However, the section can also contain non-percussive instruments, such as whistles and sirens, or a blown conch shell. Percussive techniques can even be applied to the human body itself, as in body percussion. On the other hand, keyboard instruments, such as the celesta, are not normally part of the percussion section, but keyboard percussion instruments such as the glockenspiel and xylophone (which do not have piano keyboards) are included.
Percussion instruments are most commonly divided into two classes: Pitched percussion instruments, which produce notes with an identifiable pitch, and unpitched percussion instruments, which produce notes or sounds in an indefinite pitch