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CROTALO

Volume 6 · 73 words · 1815 Edition

an instrument of military music, like that described in the next article. The Turks were the first, among the moderns, who introduced the use of it for their troops. It is now common in Flanders and Florence, and other territories on the continent. It has only one tone; but its effect in marking time may be distinctly heard through the noise of forty drums. This is the same instrument with the ancient cymbalum.