Ancient Chinese percussion instruments, what are the ancient percussion instruments

Among the folk musical instruments, there are many types of percussion instruments, each with its own characteristics and different colors. Except for the ancient chimes, chimes, and cloud gongs, which are still popular in modern times, they can play certain melodies, and the others are rhythmic instruments. According to its shape and materials, it can be divided into four categories.

Drums: The drums commonly used in Shanxi include large and small hall drums, board drums, hand drums, waist drums, handle drums, book drums, octagonal drums, fishing drums, fan drums, flower drums, etc. These drums, of different shapes and models, are used as accompaniment to folk wind and percussion music, local opera, quyi and folk songs and dances.

Gongs: The gongs commonly used in Shanxi include horse gongs, also known as hanging gongs, big gongs, Beijing gongs, boring gongs, small gongs, pimple gongs, cloud gongs, eight-tone gongs, etc. Among them, the pimple gong and the horse gong are unique musical instruments in Shanxi.

Cymbals: Shanxi commonly used big cymbals, small cymbals, large cymbals, small cymbals, small cymbals, water cymbals, water cymbal hinges, etc., as well as small cymbals similar to bells. Bang Plate Class:

Shanxi commonly used clapper, bamboo board, simple board, four tiles, lotus fall, bangzi, wooden fish and so on. Among them, the four tiles are unique musical instruments in the "two-person platform", the stone playing and singing and the Taoism.

Chimes, drums, xylophones,,, I knew that.

1. Chimes. Void is a large percussion instrument, which arose in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

It flourished from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties.

It is one of the symbols of our ancient national ritual music.

2. The drum is one or both sides of the barrel-shaped drum body, covered with a taut membrane, and can be struck with a poor bend hand or drum pestle.

3. Cymbals, shaped like a bell, have a long handle, and prevailed in the Spring and Autumn Period.

4. Braided chime, made of stone or jade, in a group of sixteen sides.

5. Wooden fish, also known as wooden fish drum, fish drum or fish plate, its shape and usage are different from those of later generations.

1. Timpani, is a type of percussion instrument. It consists of a drum surface and barrel, as well as a drumstick. The timpani is the cornerstone in a pipe band or symphony orchestra.

The drum surface was originally made of animal leather, and the plastic drum surface was invented in the 50s of the 20th century. Drum barrels were originally made of copper, but now they are usually made of lighter synthetic fibers.

2. Xylophone(English: xylophone) is a percussion instrument that consists of a set of small rectangular wooden blocks. Depending on the length of the blocks, they are arranged in a certain order.

When playing, two wooden mallets are struck on a wooden block, making a sound similar to that of bones, ice cubes, etc.

3. Marimba(English: marimba) is a type of percussion instrument. It is a kind of xylophone, in which the wooden keys are placed on the resonance tube and struck with a mallet to produce a melody, but the keys are wider than the xylophone, the vocal range is wider, the timbre is cold, and there are more special playing styles.

The number of bonds of marimba is 49, 52, 56, 61, 66, 69.

4. Vibraphone, is a type of percussion instrument. Similar to the xylophone, but the keys are made of metal, usually brass or aluminum. There are resonance pipes under the keys, and the most distinctive feature is that a rotating fan blade is installed on the top of each branch pipe, which is connected to the motor next to the body.

5. Sand mallet, a rocking body sonata instrument, also known as a sand ball. A rhythmic percussion instrument that originated from the Indians of South America. The traditional sand mallet uses a spherical dry gourd, which contains some dry and hard seeds or gravel, with the original slender neck of the gourd as the handle, and the hard grains hit the wall of the gourd when shaken.

There are two kinds of fixed pitch and no fixed pitch, the former such as iron piano, xylophone, timpani, iron piano, pipe bell, etc., the latter such as cymbals, triangles, tambourine, wooden fish, big drum, small drum, castanets, etc., and occasionally there will be things you can't imagine that have also become percussion instruments, such as leather whips, iron drills, gears, etc.

There are African drums, drum kits, timpani

What are the percussion instruments?

Percussion instruments include drums, gongs, cymbals, cymbals, bells, allegro, waist drums, wooden fish, chimes, drum kits, timpani, snare drums, marimba, African drums, pipe bells, triangles, tambourine, castanets, and sand mallets, among others.

Percussion instruments, also known as "percussion instruments", are a group of musical instruments that produce sound effects by percussion, shaking, rubbing, etc. Percussion is probably the oldest instrument. Some percussion instruments can produce not only rhythm, but also melodic and chorus.

Many of the Chinese national percussion instruments are still in use today, and these traditional percussion instruments are an indispensable part of traditional Chinese art, such as drums, gongs, cymbals in Chinese drama, or allegro and castanets used in storytelling.

Percussion instruments are divided into Chinese national percussion instruments and Western percussion instruments, and their performance forms are the same, but there are many differences in music types, performance forms, and performance forms. Percussion instruments are mainly used for traditional ethnic festivals, weddings and funeral occasions, folk instrument ensembles and opera accompaniment due to the different regions and occasions of popularity, and the different forms of musical instruments of different nationalities.

Chinese national percussion instruments are as follows:

Ethnic percussion instruments include cymbals, bangzi, cymbals, bells, wooden fish, drums, tambourine, cloud gongs, castanets, and gongs. Cymbals Cymbals, commonly known as cymbals, are percussion instruments. Made of copper, round, hemispherical in the middle, with a hole in the middle, two pieces striking each other to make a sound.

It is of different shapes and sizes, and is often used for wind and percussion music, opera, song and dance accompaniment. In ancient times, it was called "copper cymbals" and "copper plates".

1. Cymbals: commonly known as cymbals, percussion instruments. Made of copper, round, hemispherical in the middle, with a hole in the middle, two pieces striking each other to make a sound. The shape is different in size, and it is often used for wind and percussion music, opera, song and dance accompaniment. In ancient times, it was called "copper cymbals" and "copper plates".

2. Bangzi: also known as Bangban, a Chinese percussion instrument. The bang consists of two solid hardwood sticks of varying lengths and thicknesses. The 25 cm long one is cylindrical with a diameter of 4 cm, and the other is short and thick and rectangular, 20 cm long, 5-6 cm wide, and 4 cm thick.

3. Cymbals: ancient percussion instruments. Cast in bronze, the shape is like a bell and large, the mouth is upward, the top is large and the bottom is small, the body is flat and the mouth edge is bent downward, the bottom is flat, there is a hollow short handle below, and it can be equipped with a wooden handle.

When using, hold the handle in your hand and strike it with a mallet. Generally, there are three pieces of large, medium and small pieces, and there are also five pieces as a group.

4. Ringing bells: touching the body sonata instrument. It is widely used as a percussion instrument in Chinese song and dance, opera accompaniment and folk instrumental ensemble.

It is shaped like a bell, made of copper, one pay two, with a rope pierced through the envy Qingyou, colliding with each other and pronouncing, no fixed pitch. It is often used in instrumental ensembles and opera accompaniment, and is a rhythm instrument.

In ancient China, percussion instruments mainly included chimes, chimes, drums, bai, and reeds.

Silk: All kinds of stringed instruments, because the strings in ancient times were made of silk. There are qin, se, zhu, pipa, huqin, gonghou and so on.

Bamboo: Wind instruments dressed up in front of the bamboo, flutes, flutes, flutes, pan flutes, pipes, etc.

Gourd-like plant fruits, mainly sheng.

Soil: It is a pottery musical instrument, xun, ocarina, pottery drum, etc.

Gehu San: Mainly all kinds of drums, mainly hanging drums and building drums.

Wood: It is rare now, and there are all kinds of wooden drums, drums, and knots. It is an ancient percussion instrument, the shape is in the shape of a tiger, there is a zigzag thin wooden board on the back of the tiger, and the bamboo tube Hui that is split into several stems at one end is used to make a stove, and the zigzag pronunciation is scraped against it, and the end of the music is composed.

It has been used in the court of the past dynasties. 柷 is an ancient percussion instrument, shaped like a square wooden box, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and hits its inner wall with a vertebra (wooden stick) to make a sound, indicating that the music is about to begin. It has been used in the court of the past dynasties.