Percussion idiophone

Percussion idiophone (Fr.: idiophone par perccussion; Ger.: Aufschlagidiophon), instr. sounded by being struck, either with a nonsonorous body (such as the hand, a stick) or against a nonsonorous object (the human body, the ground) (100). Hornborstel, E. M. von, and Sachs, Curt. “Classification of Musical Instruments,” translated by Anthony Baines and Klaus P. Wachsmann, in The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 14. N.p., 1961.