Crotales (singular crotal from latin crotalum) are percussion instruments consisting of small, tuned metal disks, each about 4" in diameter with a flat top surface and a nipple on the base. Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ...

Also referred to as ancient cymbals, antique cymbals, or by 19th century composers as cymbales antiques, they have little in common musically with conventional modern cymbals. Their sound is rather like a small tuned bell. However, they are manufactured by cymbal makers using cymbal alloys, and there exist various intermediate instruments such as the Zildjian Zil-Bel effects cymbal, so despite their sound they are considered a type of cymbal. This article is about the percussion instruments made of metal disks, for the string instrument played with beaters see cymbalum. ... The bells of St Savas A bell is a simple sound-making device. ... Cymbals are made from four main alloys, all of them copper-based. ... The Avedis Zildjian Company is one of the worlds biggest manufacturers of cymbals. ... An effects cymbal is a cymbal used in a drum kit for a special effect or accent. ...

Crotales may commonly be purchased individually or in sets. Some kit drummers such as Neil Peart use a single crotale mounted like a normal cymbal. Sets will normally cover a chromatic octave, and are most often arranged similarly to a piano keyboard, but for particular pieces only those required may be set up, in whatever arrangement the player considers most suitable. The Rush song 'YYZ' contains a crotal part in the intro. A drum kit (or drum set or trap set - the latter an old-fashioned term) is a collection of drums, cymbals and other percussion instruments arranged for convenient playing by a sole percussionist (drummer), usually for jazz, rock, or other types of contemporary music. ... Neil Peart of Rush. ... The chromatic scale is any musical scale that contains more than one consecutive half-step (in other words two adjacent pairs of scale degrees or members which are separated by a semitone). ... In music, an octave (sometimes abbreviated 8ve or 8va) is the interval between one musical note and another with half or double the frequency. ... Look up Rush in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Rush may refer to any of the following: In general it implies something that happens hurriedly or hastily, or an activity entailing unusually rapid flow of people or things at quantity. ...