Page 129 - Primary Six Notes

1. Percussion musical instruments

These are musical instruments which produce sound by vibra-

tion of their skins or the wood by beating or hitting them.
Examples of percussion musical instruments.

Xylophones, drums, long drum, bells, thumb pianos, brass

band, drums, rattles, clappers or shakers.

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The pitch of percussion musical instruments can be deter-

mined by heating their skin to expand or by tightening the

skin.

2. Wind musical instruments (AEROPHONES)

These are musical instruments which produce sound by the vi-

bration of air blown inside them

Some have holes numbered to produce different pitch of

sound. Each hole produces a different pitch of sound.