Cymbals

The cymbals clashed.

A bass drum, a snare drum, and cymbals were once all a composer needed to make a work sound exotic.

The cymbals are harder to play than one might think.

"Thence Corybantian cymbals clashed and brayed / in praise of Cybele. In Ida's wood / her mystic rites in secrecy were paid, / and lions, yoked in pomp, their sovereign's car conveyed."

Whereas some ascetics and Brahmins remain addicted to attending such shows as dancing, singing, music, displays, recitations, hand-music, cymbals and drums, fairy-shows, acrobatic and conjuring tricks, combats of elephants, buffaloes, bulls, goats, rams, cocks and quail, fighting with staves, boxing, wrestling, sham-fights, parades, manoeuvres and military reviews, the ascetic Gotama refrains from attending such displays.

Sami is tightening his cymbals.

A resident uses pot lids to play cymbals as she takes part in a music flash mob called "Look out from the window, Rome mine!" The event sought to liven up the city's silence during the coronavirus lockdown.

The children sit cross-legged on the carpeted floor of a large auditorium, facing a saffron-robed swami in an easy chair who is rhythmically clinking small brass cymbals.

Where are the cymbals?

Those cymbals are beat up.