Meet the Percussion Family!

What do you get when you put a snare drum, bass drum, xylophone, cymbals and a tambourine together? A percussion section!

You know about the brass and woodwind family of instruments. Now it's time to learn about the third family of instruments- Percussion! In this webquest, you are going to discover the percussion family of instruments. You will understand their role in an ensemble, how they produce sound and how they're played. You will also identify eight members of the percussion family of instruments.

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