percussion instrument

Questions about percussion instrument

What does percussion instrument mean?

percussion instrument means "a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another".

What is another word for percussion instrument?

Close synonyms include percussive instrument. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is percussion instrument a common word?

percussion instrument is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.