percussionist vs musician

percussionist and musician both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
percussionist	Yes	No	No	No
musician	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, musician is a hypernym of percussionist; that is, musician is a word with a broader meaning than percussionist:

Other hypernyms of percussionist include instrumentalist, player.

percussionist (noun)	musician (noun)
a musician who plays percussion instruments	artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
	someone who plays a music as a profession