(n.) A musical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.
(n.) A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.
(n.) A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.
Example Sentences:
(1) I know you love me and I love you,” said Jonathan, wearing his trademark fedora and carrying a gold-handled cane, in a speech punctuated by bass guitar and cymbals.
(2) It is a plausible claim, judging by the cacophony of trumpets, cymbals, drums and violins erupting from classrooms, corridors and the courtyard: hundreds of children aged six to 19, some in trainers, others in flip-flops, individually and collectively making music.
(3) Augmented by drummer Baby Jeff White, the sound is as loud as a landing 747 - each cymbal-crash a clean shot to the head.
(4) Where Blakey had stretched the rhythmic role of bop drums by intensifying the scattered offbeat patterns sown against the steady hi-hat and ride-cymbal pulse, Jones was dispensing with the "accompanist" role altogether, and envisaging a drum part as enhancing the playing of others and being a developing musical statement itself.
(5) His exclamatory sock-cymbal sound, often played at the turning point in a theme, or at the close, appeared to be struck with a dismissive blow like a boxer's right cross, and would be all the more arresting for its contrast with Jones's general demeanour of happiness in his work, smiling fit to bust, unleashing a stream of effusive - and highly rhythmic - chortles and grunts, sometimes eyeballing his partners with baleful amiability from the drum stool while intensifying the pressure, as if baiting them into bigger risks.
(6) For one, Jones appeared not to locate the focus of the beat in any single part of the kit for long, or use the steady ride cymbal pattern of the conventional jazz drummer or the steady, clapping snare-drum backbeat of the traditional rock player.
(7) It’s quite a jolly, memorable melody, punctuated with a lot of cymbals, which lock the melody down.
(8) The couples were of north African origin, and the Muslim tradition was there in the joyful beating of drums and cymbals as they emerged from their civil ceremonies.
(9) This is interesting, because these days we think of Radiohead as a largely electronic unit, yet Alt-J employ enough non-electronic instruments (the drummer, for example, uses a saucepan instead of a cymbal) for it to be appropriate to think of them as, in a way, a modern folk band.
(10) Wondering when Alfie and Kat will finally get together has been like waiting for an absent-minded percussion player to find his second cymbal.
(11) The Guardian’s photographer delightedly pointed out an element of the music he had never heard before, rattled out on the bell of a cymbal.
(12) Disclosure sound pretty great with their laptops and cymbal combination.
(13) He made enough of an impression to get himself recruited to the BBC Light Programme as presenter of the Records Around Five show in 1960, where he first introduced his familiar signature tune, At the Sign of the Swinging Cymbal, written by Brian Fahey.