Lifting her arms her fingers began to touch; thin, high ringings coming from the tiny cymbals she had slipped on her fingers and thumbs.

The second piece ended in Mr. Jarrett's playing twinkling high notes without a frame of harmony and Mr. DeJohnette's plinking his tiniest cymbals; it sounded vaguely Asian and vaguely like a carillon.

The deep gong sounded again and the metallophones, tiny cymbals and two sets of brass kettledrums, resumed the impassioned melody.

Then his four-member band comes on, with the little Brazilian guitar called a cavaquinho, the tambourinelike pandeiro, electric bass and a drum set with only a tiny cymbal.

Mr. Alexander's drum kit includes tiny cymbals and ranks of tuned drums, and he used them for pinpoint accents and effects, interlaced with the quick stops and starts of Mr. Claypool's bass parts.

Mr. Osby's music tends to be heavily detailed, composed from top to bottom, down to the tiniest cymbal hit and broken-off bass phrase.

Zills, also zils or finger cymbals, (from Turkish zil, "cymbals" ) are tiny metallic cymbals used in belly dancing and similar performances.

This consists of a round wooden hoop across which a parchment head is stretched and to which loosely fitting metal plates, like tiny cymbals, are attached.

Mr. DeJohnette stuck to his own rhythmic cycle, finally focusing on his tiny bell-chime cymbals.

Shortly, Tristan found himself in a smoky but huge tent, watching oiled dancers undulate to the jarring rhythm of tiny cymbals and wailing pipes.