Percussion

The percussion family includes instruments that are struck, scraped, or shaken, to produce a sound. These instruments include drums, timpani, xylophone, wood blocks, triangles, castanets, and maracas, to name a few!

Learn more about each instrument and musicians that play them below. Use the buttons to move to a different instrument family and download our supplementary PopsEd student guides.

  • conductor
  • strings
  • woodwinds
  • brass
  • percussion

Timpani – Jonathan Hass

Drumset – Sherri Maricle

Xylophone – James Saporito

Auxiliary Percussion – Barry Centanni

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The New York Pops wishes to thank The Leir Foundation for their generous support of Kids in the Balcony.

This program is funded, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.