September 2010
Beginner
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Although anything able to be banged, shaken, rubbed, or scraped could be considered an indefinite pitched percussion instrument, three primary noisemakers were found in the early Romantic-era orchestra.
Possibly the most popular, the crash cymbal is able to create a wide range of effects. In addition to being crashed together to accent sections of high dynamics, these metal discs can also be tinkled with sticks, swelled with soft mallets, and scraped with a coin.
The triangle is a bar of metal bent into a triangular shape with one of the angles left open. ...
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