tinkling
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"I had to get out of Los Angeles," said Quinn, a poetic songwriter who describes his sound as a cowboy waltz vibe meshing with tinklings of sci-fi.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2015
James Pants James Pants’s self-titled third album on Stones Throw slides among dispositions — woozy guitarscapes, octave-jumping disco bass lines, electro, doo-wop, cheap and dated keyboard tinklings, confrontational shouts bobbing in reverb.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2011
In stanza two, the sky has darkened, and the sounds have become lighter, fainter, yet somehow more intense: the beetle's "droning flight", the high, faint and silvery "tinklings" of sheep-bells.
From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2011
In the supernatural passages Britten concentrated on fantastical sounds: mysterious tinklings of the celesta, curious patterns of bells, vocal parts accompanied only by harps and percussion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Silence everywhere except for tinklings in the kitchen.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
