noun
definition
A concave plate of brass or bronze that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like.
Examples of cymbal in a Sentence
You can sing but you will be a clanging cymbal.
Tongues were, he felt, to cease whenever the perfect should come; and the believer who spoke with the tongues of men and of angels, if he had not love, was no better than the sounding brass and clanging cymbal of the noisy heathen mysteries.
But he broke the chain, and now he is become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
The rites were characterized by a frenzy of devotion, unrestrained enthusiasm, wild orgiastic dances and wanderings in the forests, and were accompanied by the music of the flute, cymbal, and tambourine.
Includes a snare drum stand, 10 " cymbal and cymbal arm, drum sticks, junior bass drum pedal and hi hat stand.
At some point my flying hand hits cymbal bruising wrist which soon swells.
Modern finger cymbals are played with a cymbal on each middle finger and thumb.
Now can we get a foothold in the cymbal market too?
Has anyone ever had a splinter from a second hand or old cymbal?
Vincent rides cymbal crescendos and pensive pattering to equally tingling ends, his restrained electronic gurgles providing ambiguous accents.
Even light sticking spurs this cymbal to swell with a deep bass rumble and many, many decibels.
Stagg Stagg were back with their 30 ride cymbal as well as a new series, the Classic.
For whatever reason, I really miss the little splashy cymbal bits live.
A crash cymbal is a single cymbal, normally 14 to 18 inches.
The use of the ride cymbal in this album is something I enjoy too.
The Rhine-daughters' exultant cry of " Rhine-gold " is there tortured in an extremely remote modulation at the end of a very sinister transformation of the theme; and the orchestration, with its lurid but smothered brass instruments, its penetrating low reed tones and its weird drum-roll beaten on a suspended cymbal, is more awe-inspiring than anything dreamed of by the cleverest of those composers who do not create intellectual causes for their effects.
Ideal for mounting smaller cymbals above a main, larger cymbal.