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  • noun Plural form of crotale.

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Examples

  • First, to be in this band, apparently you need to play at least four instruments, even if one is the zither or the saw or a flugelhorn or a contraption of small cymbals called the crotales.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • First, to be in this band, apparently you need to play at least four instruments, even if one is the zither or the saw or a flugelhorn or a contraption of small cymbals called the crotales.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • From an opening of crystalline stillness expressed in brittle scrapes, skitters and pops, pealing crotales antique cymbals and copious silence, Mr. Lei offered painterly evocations of motion and mood.

    NYT > Home Page By STEVE SMITH 2012

  • So I stumbled on the crotales, which allowed me to sustain pitches with incredible volume with no amplification - that became part of what I do.

    News 2011

  • The clarinetist is Jocie Adams, and before her night was done, she would also play the crotales (with a bow), the zither, the electric bass, the banjo (with a bow) and take over lead vocals a few time.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • From an opening of crystalline stillness expressed in brittle scrapes, skitters and pops, pealing crotales antique cymbals and copious silence, Mr. Liang offered painterly evocations of motion and mood.

    NYT > Home Page By STEVE SMITH 2012

  • So I stumbled on the crotales, which allowed me to sustain pitches with incredible volume with no amplification - that became part of what I do.

    News 2011

  • The clarinetist is Jocie Adams, and before her night was done, she would also play the crotales (with a bow), the zither, the electric bass, the banjo (with a bow) and take over lead vocals a few time.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • As is their custom, Miller, Prystowsky, Jocie Adams and Mat Davidson switched instruments throughout, going through guitars, acoustic and electric basses, pump organ, fiddle drums, clarinets and bowed and malleted crotales.

    Projo.com Projo Local News 2010

  • Even the seasoned gig-goers in the crowd that thought they had seen enough multi-instrumentalist bands in their time will have been impressed by the delicate use of clarinets, horns and trumpets not to mention the bowed musical saw and crotales.

    Irish Blogs State Magazine 2010

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