In the Twilight series, Edward Cullen plays a grand piano.

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The marimba is quite fun to play and is also laid out similarly for musicians familiar with a piano. The play the marimba you use mallets to strike the bars of the instrument which produces tones. By combining multiple mallets and using sheet music, you can make beautiful music with a marimba.

It is believed that the original maracas were invented by the Tainos who were the native Indians of Puerto Rico during the 16th and 17th centuries. The original model of the instrument was made from fruit and had a round shape.
the man who made it was in the zoloo tribe actually! as the instrument comes from a puerto rican background it was still invented by the man called miyuensa kheleb
No one person was solely responsible for this invention. In Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Latin America, they are considered to be a native instrument.

The xylophone has metal keys that you strike with a wooden hammer.

Yes. They are also called Timpani and they are considered percussion instruments.

You have all sorts of drums and cymbals that contribute rhythmically. There are also melodic percussion instruments like the xylophone, marimba, steel drum, chimes and glockenspiel. I do not believe there is a "standard percussion orchestra", so the sky is the limit. You could also include vocalizations, hand clapping, finger snapping and foot stomping.

The same as the difference between a tuned and un-tuned wind instrument or string instrument.

It can be loud but It can be soft and quiet. depending on the percussion instrument you are playing and how you are playing it .

Any instrument that is played without blowing on it. Drums, or anything else you use a stick to play. Any stringed instrument, and piano's. And odds and end's instruments like tambourines and claves.

Yes it is. Because it creates sound through the vibration of its drum head/stretched membrane.

There are 2 types of percussion, Idiophones and Membranophones

Idiophones are instruments that produce sound by the vibration of the instrument as a whole through hitting,shaking,friction,blowing,plucking and etc. So basically the instrument, as a whole, is the one vibrating and that produces the sound.

Membranophones on the other hand are instruments that produce sound using Stretched membranes, such as, Drum heads and animal skins through Hitting it. So basically, The Stretched membrane is the one vibrating on Membranophone instruments.

DW is the nickname for the Drum Warehouse which is a drum and hardware manufacturing company based in California. They manufacture a wide variety of percussion instruments including traditional drum lines, snare drum lines as well as other percussion instruments.

There are a lot of famous timpani players out there. Some well known timpani players are: Vic Firth and Stanley Leonard.

Because Within the orchestra the piano usually supports the harmony, but it has another role as a solo instrument (an instrument that plays by itself), playing both melody and harmony.

1. The first percussion instruments were likely human hands and feet used to clap or stomp a rhythm. Eventually culture discovered that they could create louder, more varied sounds with crafted surfaces and implements.
2. The most common percussion instruments in the orchestra include the timpani, xylophone, cymbals, triangle, snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, maracas, gongs, chimes, celesta and piano.
3. It's not easy to be a percussionist because it takes a lot of practice to hit an instrument with the right amount of strength, in the right place and at the right time.
4. The percussion family is the largest in the orchestra.
5. Percussion instruments include any instrument that makes a sound when it is hit, shaken, or scraped.

The tympani, kettle drum, and the timps are other names for the timpani.

A symphony or an Orchestra. There are also some rock drummers who have placed and used timpanis on their drum sets.

Maracas sound like rice hitting a hollow wooden sphere, I guess. It makes a "Chi" sound if shaken all fiercely, sort of staccato. If you turn it in your hands slowly, it sounds similar to rain.
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Drum percussion is so loud because of the oscillations of the drum surface. The oscillation of drum surface causes oscillation of air molecules and loud noise.