There are actually several types of national musical instruments that are percussion-based. The dulcimer everyone talks about is one of them, a percussion instrument. There are several such instruments.

Dulcimer

Dulcimer is also known as butterfly lute, daqin, knocking qin, fan-shaped qin, etc. It was introduced to China via Persia in the late Ming Dynasty. It was first popular in Guangdong and later expanded to Fujian and Zhejiang. , Jianghuai and Central Plains regions. Since its development, it has become an accompaniment instrument for a variety of operas and rap music, and plays an important role in folk instrumental music such as Guangdong music, Jiangnan Sizhu, Shandong Qin music, and Henan Ban Tou music. Most dulcimers are wooden flat square speakers with steel wire strings or metal winding strings. The smallest ones have 8 to 10 levels, the largest ones have 13 to 18 levels, and each level has 2 to 4 strings. The playing methods of dulcimer include single bamboo type, unified bamboo type, round bamboo type, trembling bamboo type, sliding type, vibrato type, plucked string type, grabbed string type, dotted string type and decorative tone type. Its tone is crisp and melodious, and can be played through various smooth playing, slow playing, simultaneous playing, close playing, divided playing, continuous playing, sandwich playing, backing, seated tone, pause tone, flower tone, decorative tone, lunzhu, wave bamboo, etc. The use of techniques such as trembling bamboo and sliding trembling forms rich and diverse patterns and lines, making the tune gorgeous, lively, smooth and with national charm. The dulcimer has been around for more than 300 years and has become an important regional national musical instrument in China.

There is also a melodic percussion instrument that is mainly popular among the folk in Southeast Asia, Africa and Central and South America, the xylophone. The xylophone is also a percussion instrument. And widely found in areas south of the Sahara Desert.

In addition, there is a kind of percussion piano or xylophone that little babies can play. It makes a tinkling sound when struck, and the sound is crisp, even little babies like it.