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and closely related instruments) are sometimes used as pitched percussion and, at other times, as unpitched percussion.
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percussion instruments can and frequently do make sounds that could be used as pitched notes in an appropriate context.
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Pitching of percussion instruments is achieved through a variety of means.
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are generally considered unpitched, sets such as these can be found in a
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This second consideration also means that the traditional division into
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Percussion musical instrument that produces sounds with a definite pitch
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by the player, but this tuning does not relate to a particular pitch.
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Pitched percussion instruments easily mistaken for unpitched
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and other instruments using an actual keyboard mechanism).
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Some percussion instruments (particularly, many types of
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Index

Melodic percussion

glockenspiel
crotales

cowbells
chromatic
percussion instrument
musical notes
pitches
unpitched percussion instrument
indefinite pitch
Membranophones
timpani
Idiophones
crotales
bass drum
tuned and untuned percussion
timpani
glockenspiel
bell
snare drum
Keyboard percussion
glockenspiel
tubular bells
keyboard layout
celesta
List of percussion instruments
Pitch
Pitched percussion instruments easily mistaken for unpitched

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