| 100% | ANVIL | 5 | Percussion instrument in "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" |
| 55% | POT | 3 | Percussion instrument in Off Broadway's "Stomp" |
| 50% | SNAREDRUM | 9 | Percussion instrument in a combo |
| 50% | ELGNAIRT | 8 | Percussion instrument in an orchestra |
| 50% | STEELDRUM | 9 | Percussion instrument in calypso music |
| 50% | GONG | 4 | Percussion instrument in a temple |
| 50% | GONGS | 5 | Percussion instruments in Buddhist temples |
| 49% | GONG | 4 | Percussion instrument in a Chinese temple |
| 49% | BASSDRUM | 8 | Percussion instrument in a marching band |
| 49% | SNAREDRUM | 9 | Percussion instrument in a marching band |
| 49% | DRUM | 4 | Percussion instrument in a rock band |
| 49% | GONG | 4 | Percussion instrument in a Tibetan monastery |
| 49% | GONGS | 5 | Percussion instruments in a Buddhist temple |
| 49% | GONG | 4 | Large percussion instrument that's hit with a hammer |
| 46% | GONGS | 5 | Percussion instruments hit with padded hammers |
| 45% | MARACA | 6 | Percussion instrument often used in calypso music |
| 40% | GUIRO | 5 | Percussion instrument made from a hollow gourd commonly used in Latin American music |
| 40% | DRUM | 4 | "Bang the ___ All Day," 1983 song by Todd Rundgren with a percussion instrument in its title |
| 40% | MARACA | 6 | Percussion instrument that's shaken |
| 39% | SAXES | 5 | Instruments in Ravel's "Boléro" |
| 39% | LEDGE | 5 | S___hammers were used to hammer in spikes for railroads |
| 39% | BLOWTORCH | 9 | Instrument in a metalworker's union? |
| 39% | CELLO | 5 | Instrument in Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet |
| 38% | VIOL | 4 | Instrument in Vermeer's "The Music Lesson" |
| 38% | KAZOO | 5 | Instrument in Pink Floyd's "Jugband Blues" |
| 38% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument in Joan Tower's "Island Prelude" |
| 37% | GONG | 4 | Percussion instrument that's hit with a mallet |
| 37% | SAX | 3 | Instrument in Glenn Miller's "Pennsylvania 6-5000" |
| 37% | MALLETS | 7 | Hammers used to strike percussion instruments |
| 36% | SITAR | 5 | Instrument in George Harrison's "Within You Without You" |