Talk:Classification of percussion instruments

Merge from sections of Percussion instrument
Ultimately, most of the material from Percussion Instrument should come here, leaving jsut an outline there, and merging the section currently at Percussion Instrument.

The mess is partly my fault, but the existing material was unreferenced, confusing, and arguably POV in places. But, there is also good material in the article still to rescue. A work in progress. Andrewa (talk) 00:19, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Hornbostel-Sachs classification for a suspended cymbal
All I can find on the web is 111.24, which includes 111.241 Gongs, 111.242 Bells. 111.243 Slit Drums and 111.244 Percusion Troughs. 111.245 seems to be unallocated, but there must surely be a specific code for suspended cymbal.

Or is it just that those who administer the scheme haven't yet realised that jazz and rock are music? Surely not, even Trinity College teaches kit drumming these days. Andrewa (talk) 08:33, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Classification by region of origin
As many percussion instruments are used in multiple genres and traditions, I wonder whether it might be an idea to have a section on classification by region of origin, at least in addition to the other classifications. An idea floated on Talk:Percussion_instrument. It would be in a tree system as such:

continent/global regions (europe africa middle east east asia south asia americas etc)
 * instruments which originated in that global region but for which a specific site of origin is unknown
 * regions (mediterranean, carribean/cerntral america, indian subcontinent, north africa etc.)
 * instruments which originated in that region but for which a specific country of origin is unknown
 * countries - although as borders can sometimes shift this could get tricky
 * instruments which originated in that country
 * locales/regions within countries
 * instruments which are known to have originated in a particular locality

Examples: Americas-Central America/Carribean-Trinidad and Tobago-Steel Pan

There would also need to be a section for instruments of an unknown region of origin, such as castanets, which could have originated in europe or north africa

Obviously more recently developed instruments would be easier to place, such as:

Europe - British isles - England - Sussex - Electronic Drum (although the reference seems like it may be self published)

I suppose this discussion would also need to be had on the category talk page to ensure consistencyGudzwabofer (talk) 06:49, 22 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I've also noticed there is a WikiProject Music/Regional and national music taskforce but the last post on their talk page is a few months ago.Gudzwabofer (talk) 07:06, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Classification by Tradition
Another way of looking at this is classification by genre. Links to existing genre articles with substantial percussion sections can be used, such as Reggae although that section has no references, despite the fact that it seems to know what it's talking about.Gudzwabofer (talk) 07:12, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

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The piano is a percussion instrument
I find the repeated suggestions (in both this article and related Wikipedia articles about the classification of musical instruments) that the piano is merely "considered by some" to be a percussion instrument to be misleading and ridiculous.

There is no question but that the piano is a percussion instrument.

It also happens to have strings. If that qualifies it as a stringed instrument, that is fine. In that case it is *both* a percussion instrument *and* a stringed instrument.

But under no circumstances can a piano not be a percussion instrument. 2601:200:C000:1A0:8C95:A557:7D42:1FD2 (talk) 16:51, 14 October 2022 (UTC)