Category talk:Percussion instruments

Merge
I notice also a category entitled "percussion", any chance of merging these? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.176.61.57 (talk • contribs)
 * Category:Percussion has a broader scope than this one, which is a subcategory of it. If you look at the interlanguage links of that category, you'll see that it exists in a number of the other larger Wikipedias too, and in each of them this category also exists. A merge is not appropriate. Andrewa (talk) 05:48, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Steelpan
1) what is the first steelpan made

2) how did it come to antigua.     3) what is the name of the first steelpan in antigua.

4) what is the area of the first steelpan from.

5) what is the area of the second steelpan from.

6) when was the first one recorded.

7)find any dificulties in getting steelpan

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.188.174.115 (talk • contribs)

Interesting questions... sorry it's taken more than five years to look at them! If you're still interested in answers, have a look at steelpan and if they're still not answered there, perhaps raise them at the Reference desk/Entertainment. Or, if you've answered them in the meantime, consider adding this information to the article! Andrewa (talk) 05:48, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Split
IMO this category should become mainly a metacategory, with few articles and none of them on specific instruments, rather it should contain four pure metacategories (i.e. container categories), each of them with no articles: and each percussion instrument should belong to at least one subcategory of each of these metacategories. Andrewa (talk) 19:30, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Category:Percussion instruments by means of sound production
 * Category:Percussion instruments by usage
 * Category:Percussion instruments by playing technique
 * Category:Percussion instruments by tradition