What is a picture of a musical instrument cymbal?

Picture of a large cymbal

The large cymbal, copper straw hat-shaped, 60 cm in diameter two cymbal leaves divided into yin and yang, two sides for a pair, each side is about a foot in diameter. The cymbals have no fixed pitch and are notated with a single line.

The cymbals are loud and bright, and are mostly used for ensemble playing and accompanying drama, song and dance. In the folk drum performance often in the music of the strong beat playing, the use of gongs and similar. The cymbals have a large volume and a long after-tone, so they are not suitable for playing too dense a sound pattern.

The sound is bright and strong, penetrating, good at setting the mood, is a variety of orchestras and local wind band in the essential color percussion instrument, in the wind music and other local music when used in the strong play, rich momentum, usually show a passion; for the weak play, the role of similar drums, is a metronomic instrument.

Expanded Information

Based on the size and weight of the cymbals, cymbals are divided into several types, such as double-light cymbals, water cymbals, Jing cymbals, and small cymbals.

Other Cymbal Instruments

1, small cymbals, bowl-shaped, cymbal surface is slightly thicker than the flat, the surface diameter of 9.8 centimeters to 12 centimeters, the bowl diameter of 4 centimeters to 5 centimeters, the bowl height of 1.5 centimeters to 2 centimeters, the top of the bowl is tied to a strip of leather or rope, two sides of a pair. The small cymbals of the Dong ethnic group are single-sided cymbals.

When playing, each hand holds a side, striking each other and pronouncing. In the Tibetan area, used in folk songs and dances, Tibetan opera accompaniment and Tibetan Buddhist monastery band; in the Dong area, often the left hand lifted the one-sided cymbal rope, the right hand whip struck for folk festivals and celebrations, weddings and funerals, and other instrumental music ensemble.

2, small cymbals

The Zhuang language, called the oblique E. Popular throughout the country. Rattling copper, bowl-shaped, cymbal body smaller and thicker, cymbal diameter 12 cm to 14 cm, bowl diameter 5 cm to 7 cm, bowl height 1.5 cm to 2 cm, the top of the bowl drilled holes tied to the silk cloth, two sides of a pair.