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percussion instrument
a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another; they are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped; perhaps the oldest form of musical instruments, rivaled only by vocal.
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percussion instrument, Percussion instruments, percussive instrument
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