Collecting Percussion Musical Instruments

Collecting musical instruments includes collecting drums. This occupation is no less interesting than finding any similar products. Percussion musical instruments are such products, the sound of which can be heard with the help of beats or sticks. And it is carried out by stressing about an object. This kind of musical instruments is considered the most numerous of all their variety. A variety and form of percussion products created several classifications of this type. Also, one tool can be in a different group.

They are divided into such groups as:

1. for pitch;

2. sound generation.

Percussion musical instruments can be tuned to certain notes. This group includes such instruments as: timpani, vibrafons, bells, and these instruments belong to a subgroup with a certain frequency of sound.

The bells have a clear-cut timbre in the piano and sparkling and bright in the forte. Simple bells look like ordinary plates, and are placed in two rows on a wooden base. The range of their sounding reaches up to 5 octaves, but on some instruments this level can be higher.

Bells are used even in instruments such as piano and piano. And their sound is produced with the help of accented keys.

As for the key bells, their plates are enclosed in a case. And also have not a complicated mechanism of hammers that transmit impacts from the keys to bells.

The next subgroup of percussion instruments - with an undefined frequency of sound and to it include instruments such as: drums, plates, triangle and so on. E.

The drum is in demand among many nations. Its application is observed in many ensembles. One of the representatives of the drums is a membrane one. It is made of a hollow shell of a certain shape and a membrane stretched over it. The membrane is usually made of leather or plastic. Its tension controls the frequency of the drum sound.

The hull for the drum is usually made of wood, metal, and, in rare cases, can be made from clay. Sound from a similar product is extracted by stressing the membrane with sticks made of wood, they are beats. Also, some people play the drums with their hands. Those products that are used for several pieces are called a drum set.

For the first time in Russia, drums were used in the armed forces. And they used them for military operations. The use of such drums as tambourines, and cover in the Russian army was a very popular act. Tambourines had only small units. But the nakry were in demand among the cavalry detachments, since it was convenient for them to beat them with a simple lash.

The collection of percussion instruments includes the collection of drums. Small similar items in the Russian army became known after military service entered mercenaries from different countries. The drum in Russia began to enjoy its popularity thanks to Peter the 1st. Since the emperor issued a decree that each army should have this tool, each army had to have its own drummer. His duty was to accompany the sound of the army's drum on the march.

The triangle is a tool with an uncertain height of sound, it has a bright and brilliant timbre. Usually he performs simple rhythmic figures. The triangle is taken and suspended in one corner on a thin wire that is held in the hand or hung on the music stand. On the triangle they beat a metal (sometimes wooden) stick (which in their musical jargon is called a "nail"). Also, in many classical works one can hear a triangle in the works of Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, it was used to imitate "Janissary music". There are even completely solo parts of the Concerto No.1 for piano and orchestra Liszt.