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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As we walked down towards the community centre they all stopped off somewhere to steal some cymbals.
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Beside Demeter when the cymbals sound Enthroned sits Dionysus of the flowing hair.
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But quickly he began banging his blocks like cymbals and lifting his knees in a proud, parade-master fashion.
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Close by the doorway two boys clash cymbals, hard so they hit together squarely, hollow full against cupped hollow.
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One beat on an hourglass-shaped drum, while the other clashed large cymbals.
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Praise him with the clash of cymbals.
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Special effects can be obtained by strokes or rolls on a suspended cymbal , executed with timpani or side-drum sticks.
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The use of the triangle and finger cymbals is particularly effective against a backdrop of keyboard.