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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 cymbals in a Sentence
Dont know what im playing lol could be side drum bass drum cymbals or trumpet.
Praise Him with sounding cymbals; praise Him with loud crashing cymbals!
Mad Catz makes a pair of cymbals that hook right into the Rock Band 2 drum set.
Bang, bang bang, rata tat tat, crash crash went the cymbals.
Still, we've got clashing cymbals, lots of guitar, you can hear the bass line which pins the song together melodically.
I marched in the School Band playing the cymbals, aspiring to succeed Mercer who played the big drum beside me.
The dances involved ceremonial costumed rituals, recitation of mantras and the use of drums and cymbals.
The drums are without the cymbals, but the peripheral has an expansion port so you can add a set.
While the Rock Band drum set has four pads and one bass pedal, the Guitar Hero World Tour drum set has three pads, two cymbals, and one bass pedal.
The three pads and two cymbals are velocity sensitive, much like the pads on the Rock Band 2 drums.
The International Academy of Middle Eastern Dance sells dozens of instructional DVDs, including titles focusing on finger cymbals and shimmies.
Another highlight arrives with ' Shy Fly ', speedy rock music with clashing cymbals, rumbling bass and decent lead guitar.
Some top cymbals are hand hammered by skilled craftsmen who have learned a craft passed down over the centuries.
Modern finger cymbals are played with a cymbal on each middle finger and thumb.
Cast bronze cymbals with ingots of the secret Zildjian alloy, a must have for lovers of the old Zildjian sound.
Cool for retro, right for now, these highly durable cymbals move a lot of air in any kind of music.
He wanted subtle looking cymbals with explosive sounds that would be focused, cutting, and musical.
From these frames were mounted tom toms and cymbals as well as the traps try for smaller percussion items.
They may have been represented or impersonated by priests in her rites as Attis was, but they were also, like him, not actual priests in the first instance, but objects of worship in which a frenzied dance, with accompaniment of flute music, the beating of tambourines, the clashing of cymbals and castanets, wild cries and self-infliction of wounds - the whole culminating in a state of ecstasy and exhaustion - were the most prominent features.
Ideal for mounting smaller cymbals above a main, larger cymbal.
The chief musical instruments are rough types of trumpets and flutes, drums, tambourines and cymbals, and quadrangular harps.
The cymbals and horns in the orchestra struck up more loudly, and this man with bare legs jumped very high and waved his feet about very rapidly.
They are an extension of the principle on which gongs and cymbals and all instruments without notes of determinate pitch are employed in otherwise polyphonic music.