Innovation and experimentation in percussion instruments
Stacey Bowers, Garry M. Kvistad, Allen Otte · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1977
Percussion instruments, man's oldest musical instruments (with the exception of the human voice), have recently experienced a new surge of interest and popularity. Many novel percussion instruments instruments have been built, and novel ways to perform on existing ones developed. A number of innovations will be described and demonstrated.