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percussion

[per-kuhsh-uhn] / pərˈkʌʃ ən /


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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

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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