Polish word senses marked with topical category "Percussion instruments"

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Total 21 word senses

• burczybas (Noun) a Kashubian folk instrument; a membranophone consisting of a barrel with a tassel of horse hair threaded through a hole in one of its bottoms
• bęben (Noun) drum (percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber)
• bęben (Noun) auction; forced sale
• bęben (Noun) tambour (embroidery hoop)
• bębenek (Noun) tambourine (percussion instrument)
• bębenek baskijski (Noun) tambourine (percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum)
• carillon (Noun) carillon (set of bells, often in a bell tower, sometimes operated by means of a keyboard (manual or pedal), originating from the Low Countries)
• cymbałki (Noun) glockenspiel, bells (musical instrument of the percussion idiophone family of instruments; like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch)
• dzwon (Noun) sound produced by a bell
• dzwonek (Noun) bellflower (any plant of the genus Campanula)
• gong (Noun) gong (percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer)
• karylion (Noun) Alternative form of carillon
• kocioł (Noun) kettledrum
• ksylofon (Noun) xylophone (any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives)
• marimba (Noun) marimba (percussion instrument with African origins, similar to a xylophone with resonators, but much lower in range and darker in timbre)
• pandeiro (Noun) pandeiro (type of hand-held frame drum with a round wooden frame and six pairs of metal discs fit along the sides, and an animal skin or nylon head; similar to a tambourine but with head tension that can be tuned and crisper, drier, and less sustained jingles, used in a number of Brazilian music forms)
• talerz (Noun) cymbal (percussion instrument)
• tamburyn (Noun) tambourine (percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum)
• tamburyno (Noun) tambourine (percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum)
• taraban (Noun) taraban (percussive drum-like folk instrument of Turkish origin, which was once used in Ukraine and, to a lesser extent, in Poland)
• trójkąt (Noun) triangle (percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle; it is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound)

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