At every house the women dance and sing, clashing castanets or cymbals of brass and jingling bunches of little brass bells in both hands.
Castanets are small wooden rattles, made in the shape of two bowls or cups, fitted together, and tied by a string, and then fastened to the thumbs.
It was a feast of lanterns, and not without the accompaniment of guitars and castanets, and rich, soft voices.
It was not unusual for them to carry tambourines and castanets with which to beat time to their dances.
They danced to the music of the pipes, the lyre, the castanets of wood, steel, or brass, as is shown in the illustrations taken from the monuments.
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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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He has the snare drummer play several instruments at once: wood block,castanetsand snare drum.
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The organ's instruments include pipes, drums, bells, cymbals,castanetsand a xylophone, and are played by a piano-roll score.
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It is most noticeable in impulsive sounds from percussion instruments such ascastanetsor cymbals.
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As the music plays, the dancers dance with hands atop their heads, accompanied at times bycastanets.
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Theatrical versions are sung and danced with regional costumes andcastanets, though such things are not used when dancing the jota in less formal settings.
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Props such ascastanets, fans and shawls are rarely used.
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A pair of woodencastanetswith bells attached to them was the earliest form of the khartal.
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In practice a player usually uses two pairs ofcastanets.
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Jota instruments include thecastanets, guitar, bandurria, tambourines and sometimes the flute.
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Thecastanetsmust be of the type without handles, e.g. those only connected together via a string.
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It is possible to produce a roll on a pair ofcastanetsin any of the three ways in which they are held.
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For a machine castanet, a less satisfactory roll is obtained by rapid alternation of the twocastanetswith the fingers.
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The movement ends with the final statement of the first theme accompanied by a remarkable ticking passage forcastanets, wood block, and snare drum.
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The song makes use of keyboards,castanets, and an instrumental section.
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