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Descriptions of Percussion and String Instruments
A compact guide lists instrument types and features including kettledrums with calfskin skins and foot pedals, large brass and steel drums, muted snare rings, a steel struck keyboard instrument with 88 keys, a mixed string and percussion instrument, a wooden bar xylophone-like instrument, a glockenspiel with steel bars, a plucked string instrument with 47 strings, a large angelic sounding harp, and a church bell sounding pipe organ with 12 to 18 pipes.