Word: cymbal
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...band seemed to be playing musical chairs. The percussion man ran back & forth between kettle drums, cymbal and a toy drum, jangled some bells on the way, hammered a xylophone and, with evident pleasure, whammed a huge Chinese gong. Saxophone players switched to flutes, clarinets and even recorders; Sauter himself picked up a kazoo and produced sounds very much like bagpipes. Again the slate and another tune: The Doodletown Fifers. Two men played the piccolo, two the baritone saxophone, one the tenor saxophone. Then the three sax players put down their instruments and whistled. By the time they picked them...
...Ross talked in an ear-splitting voice, a combination of rasp and quack. He often expressed himself in skid-row profanity, or by mere grunts or gap-toothed grins. He had the energy of a bull, and a bull-like charm. Though he often sounded as crass as a cymbal, he had an amazing sensitivity for words, a pouncing eye for the phony, a rigorous taste. He was a great editor...
...lull, the enemy began a series of probing attacks. One of these, in less than company strength, was carried out by Chinese wearing U.S. helmets and winter clothing. It was easily repulsed. Then, one morning in the darkness before dawn, after a lot of mass singing, bugling and cymbal-clashing, some 2,500 Reds launched a heavy assault on the west face of the perimeter...
...cymbal rhimes are bell well toll sold & the like...
...guerrilla army in the Philippines. As deputy chief of one of the commands, he had 28,000 men under him. He kept up his music by playing the pianos he found occasionally in Filipino homes, and by learning to play the native agong (a cross between a cymbal and a drum). He has taken up piano and composition again and is currently working on a string quartet...