This is a partitioned list of percussion instruments showing their usage as tuned or untuned. See pitched percussion instrument for discussion of the differences between tuned and untuned percussion. The term pitched percussion is now preferred to the traditional term tuned percussion:
Each list is alphabetical.
Instruments normally used as tuned percussion
This group of instruments includes all keyboard percussion and mallet percussion instruments and nearly all melodic percussion instruments. Those three groups are themselves overlapping, having many instruments in common.
Angklung
Celesta
Chime bar
Cup chime
Glockenspiel
Hand chime
Marimba
Metallophone
Piano
Steel pan
Tubular bells
Timpani (also resembles the Kettle drum yet totally different ) Vibraphone Xylophone