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Chime at Music Glossary

What is it? Early English term was chymme bells from chymbals an Anglicization of the Latin cymbala. A set of bells usually numbering up to 16 but not more than 22 and hung stationary. They are played melodically-occasionally with simple harmony-either by automat

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