Usually means: Instruments played by hitting, shaking.
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We found 8 dictionaries that define the word percussion instruments:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. percussion instruments: Merriam-Webster
  2. percussion instruments: Collins English Dictionary
  3. percussion instruments: Vocabulary.com
  4. Percussion instruments (1 of 2), Percussion instruments (2 of 2): InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  5. percussion instruments: Wiktionary
  6. Percussion instruments: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Percussion instruments: Encyclopedia

(Note: See percussion_instrument as well.)


noun:  (music) An instrument in which the sound is produced by striking, scraping or shaking an object.
▸ Also see percussion_instrument

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