Word: cimbalom
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...distracting. Against a backdrop of gently swelling strings, he punctuates the action with a rippling organ (young love), a nervous twitter from a marimba (trouble in the streets), or perhaps the distant, breathy wailing of a girl's voice (ecstasy). One of his favorite instruments is the Hungarian cimbalom, which looks like the innards of a piano and sounds like an oversexed harpsichord. Rather than treat each scene with "big masses of symphonic sound," he takes the opening theme and works endless variations on it. It is not Brahms, but in the shadowy world of the movie house...
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