percussion
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Percussion instruments—including a whistle and slap-stick—interrupt and startle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
The Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion has found its way in, not as strangely as Uakti but beautifully.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025
Song and his team have filed a patent on his invention, called "Detecting Elbow Erosion by Percussion Method with Machine Learning."
From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2023
He took the title after performing Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto, requiring him to play drums, marimba, vibraphone and even a car's brake drum.
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2022
Percussion alone tells much less than half the story that may be elicited from the organs of the chest by proper interrogation.
From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith
Vocabulary lists containing percussion
Unit 1: Telling Details
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Music - Introductory
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Music - Middle School
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