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The glockenspiel is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars

arranged in a keyboard layout. This makes the glockenspiel a type of metallophone, similar to
the vibraphone.

The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that
are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of
its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre of the marimba is warmer, deeper, more
resonant, and more pure. It also tends to have a lower range than that of a xylophone. Typically,
the bars of a marimba are arranged chromatically, like the keys of a piano. The marimba is a type
of idiophone.
Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family. Their
sound resembles that of church bells, carillon, or a bell tower; the original tubular bells were
made to duplicate the sound of church bells within an ensemble

The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal
bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars.
The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. The
instrument is typically cylindrical, with the drum’s diameter much greater than the drum’s depth,
with a struck head at both ends of the cylinder. The heads may be made of calfskin or plastic and
there is normally a means of adjusting the tension either by threaded taps or by strings.

Clave is a percussion instrument, consisting of two sticks or blocks, in which one is struck
against the other in order to produce a sound.
Gong is a percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when
struck with a soft hammer.

Guiro is a musical instrument with a serrated surface that gives a rasping sound when scraped
with a stick, originally made from an elongated gourd and used in Latin American music.
Bongo drum
Either of a pair of small, long-bodied drums typically held between the knees and
played with the fingers.

The conga drum is at the cornerstone of countless Latin rhythms, and has helped
Latin percussion as a whole, become extremely popular in many musical genres
from all over the world.

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