[ adj ] involving percussion or featuring percussive instruments <adj.pert> percussive music
Percussive \Per*cuss"ive\, a. Striking against; percutient; as, percussive force.
In the rougher music Schiff's lack of percussive conviction, of forceful rhetoric, left him an easy prey to the devouring orchestra. In fact the LPO sounded raw, much less well rehearsed than for the 'Fantastic'.
Then one would hear a most lively composition, with strings sawing away like gypsies, and with a percussive keyboard instrument sounding something like the clangorous Hungarian-gypsy cimbalom.