Crossword clues for percussionist
percussionist
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
percussionist
"player of a percussion instrument," 1921, from percussion + -ist.
Wiktionary
percussionist
n. A trained musician who plays percussion instruments, as opposed to a drummer who lacks formal training.
WordNet
percussionist
n. a musician who plays percussion instruments
Usage examples of "percussionist".
Dominique Messier, bassist Marc Langis, and percussionist Paul Picard.
He held up his bow and nodded to his musicians, a collection of stringed instruments, a pair of percussionists, and three men playing flutes of various sizes.
The composition was more of a succession of solos rather than a symphony, with passages for string instruments, then for woodwinds, while the percussionists went their own way, resonating with the rest of the orchestra while still sounding independent of it.