cymbal

Its beat is a mix of drum machines, sequenced electronics and an acoustic kit, as tricky cymbal flourishes and field recordings of wordless voices echo somewhere in the background.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

The soldier wears a fur pelisse and holds a cymbal, which meant he was very likely to have belonged to a cavalry regiment, Ms Lavelle said.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025

Robinson walked to a blackened tree where he had nailed up a cymbal Elliott had given him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2025

By the time he played with Miles Davis in the late ’40s, Roach had shifted his style to a more propulsive rhythm that emphasized the ride cymbal.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

Malcolm felt a shiver of fear that was almost audible, like the tip of a drumstick drawn across a cymbal.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

In U.S. television, there’s a tendency to open every piece of sports programming with a clash of cymbals and a rhinoceros jumping through a flaming hoop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Yet, Fire Island as a concept produces nothing more than a toy monkey clanging its cymbals in my brain.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

The hilltop temples echoed with chants, while dance troupes performed with clanging cymbals and bagpipes.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2025

He had to just play kick and snare and toms because if you hit the cymbals they’d reverberate for 20 minutes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

If you can, listen to a percussion player or section that is using snare drums, cymbals, or other percussion of the same type but different sizes.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones