castanets in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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As the music plays, the dancers dance with hands atop their heads, accompanied at times by castanets.
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In practice a player usually uses two pairs of castanets.
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The movement ends with the final statement of the first theme accompanied by a remarkable ticking passage for castanets, wood block, and snare drum.
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In the other islands there are similar smaller instruments, but they are called "castauelas" (castanets).
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Such instruments as piano, drums, cymbals, xylophone, marimba, orchestra bells, chimes, castanets, woodblock, and even tuned sleigh bells could be played from the organ keyboards.
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It starts with gentle violins, and continues with flamenco-like guitar playing, and castanets.
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This is a driving triple meter dance which is traditionally accompanied by guitars, castanets and hand clapping.
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The castanets must be of the type without handles, e.g. those only connected together via a string.
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For a machine castanet, a less satisfactory roll is obtained by rapid alternation of the two castanets with the fingers.
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It is most noticeable in impulsive sounds from percussion instruments such as castanets or cymbals.
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