Yeah, I’m an amateur musician and can tell the difference between different kinds of saxomophone, between cellos and violas, and so on. But, there are a lot of things I’d just call “drums” that have specialty names. I mean, how many names are there for “large upright drum that you play with your fingertips and thumbs while it sits between your legs”?
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Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
As a musician, this is how I feel when talking to percussionists. Pretty much anything that makes a sound can be used for percussion and plenty of them have been given specific names: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_percussion_instruments
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
trolololol@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m new to saxomophone, any relationship with the xylophone?
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I don’t know, you’d have to ask the expert.
Denvil@lemmy.one 2 days ago
My favorite percussion instrunment, “alarm device”
Somebody had a fire drill during band class and said “write that down, write that down!”