Word: chime
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...consoles, beating on xylophone-like strips of metal with wooden hammers. In the rear hung three huge, deep-humming brass gongs. At the foot of the temple steps, two men sat and fluttered butterfly fingers against tubular drums. The music of a Balinese gamelan can clang steel-hard or chime gold-soft, Manhattanites discovered -and the rhythm was as exact and exciting as a drum solo by Gene Krupa...
...parties, her friends seldom ask her to sing, but if Sinatra or Crosby happens to be mooing on the radio, she is apt to chime in with a corned-up accompaniment. Back in Victor's good graces again, she has recorded some popular songs...
...Ducal City. To General Manager Bing himself, the offstage chime of the cash register sounded almost as sweet as the applause. For the first time in Met history, he had sold opening-night tickets separately, rather than as part of a subscription or series package. The sellout audience, paying up to $25 a seat, plunked a handsome $53,112 in the till. Bing did not rest on his first-night work. Two nights later, he hit the critics and another sellout audience with a second new production...
There was always a cuspidor planted on his library rug, and he could make it chime like a bell. Ladies covered their ears at his "hells" and "damns," but everybody agreed he was a stout old character. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives and his full name was John Joseph Gurney Cannon, but Americans called him "Uncle...
...reached Harvard Yard almost on the point of exhaustion, and wearily stamped into his classroom just as the bell on Memorial Chapel began to chime 9 o'clock...