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castanets

Spanish percussion instrument made of two hollowed wooden shells, originally chestnut wood (Spanish castaña). They are held in the palm and drummed together by the fingers to produce a rhythmic accompaniment to dance.

Orchestral castanets or ‘clappers’, mounted on a handle, were employed by silent-film effects musicians to imitate the sound of a galloping horse, hence the phrase ‘to run like the clappers’.



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Seville: it brings to the mind girls dancing with castanets, singing in gardens by the Guadalquivir, bull-fights, orange-blossom, mantillas, mantones de Manila.
chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet player, in spite of the burden of his equipment, rushed out to the front and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and flourished his castanets as if threatening someone.
And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room.
 
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