percussion
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The facility will offer infrared saunas, steam rooms, hot and cold contrast therapies, compression and percussion treatments, and private treatment rooms.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
The play blends live puppetry, shadow puppetry, live performance and an original score of Indigenous percussion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Meanwhile, Bentley addressed the challenge of luxury-EV sound by getting musicians to imitate the rumble of its V8 engines using traditional Western percussion instruments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
“Snow” is a middling pop number dressed up with a trebly pulsating synth, while “Bass Persuades Remixx” is a decent rework of the opening track, adding some sawtooth synths and switching up the percussion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
If the body percussion is too complex, simply say the rhyme or clap to the rhyme.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Together with his proteges, he performed a dance to the beat of percussions, and the Swiss wrestlers joined in, drawing further applause.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Whereas on tracks like “Dime” and “Flores,” there are distinct orchestral peaks, in which subtle percussions give way to grander, more cathartic releases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025
Jeremiah Green’s buoyant percussions — that frequently lift and propel Modest Mouse songs in unorthodox ways — bounced the sold-out crowd like a tattered basketball on the Showbox’s famously springy floor.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Its percussions pull listeners in, too, with a surprise gong that bangs, or a triangle-like sound that shimmers in the background.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2022
It was filled with rumbling thunder, breaking at intervals into louder percussions, as the red bolts passed hissing through it.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
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