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    Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic...
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  • Castanets was the musical project of Ray Raposa, who had been signed to Asthmatic Kitty Records from 2004 until his death in 2022. Castanets was influenced...
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    Spanish dancers of the 20th century and was nicknamed the "Queen of the Castanets" and the "Flamenco Pavlova". Antonia Mercé y Luque, known by her stage...
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    performer's fingers. The clapper family also includes spoons, bones and castanets. One of the earliest forms of clappers are wooden krotala already present...
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  • Cathedral is an album by Castanets, released on October 19, 2004 through Asthmatic Kitty. Part of the album was recorded live and includes a dozen local...
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  • Look up castanet or castanets in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Castanets are a percussion instrument. Castanet may also refer to: Castanet, Aveyron...
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    "Clavelitos" dressed as Carmen, complete with castanets and a wicker basket of flowers, clicking the castanets and tossing the flowers one by one. When she...
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    percussion instrument, or more specifically, an idiophone related to the castanets. They are played by hitting one spoon against the other. Fire tongs style:...
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  • Instruments include charangas, timples (similar to a cavaquinho / ukulele), castanets, panderetas, lauds and guitars. A peculiar ensemble in El Hierro island...
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    people of the New Kingdom began using oboes, trumpets, lyres, lutes, castanets, and cymbals. Unlike Mesopotamia and Egypt, professional musicians did...
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