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Word: castanets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Margarita Sierra, 26, peppery Spanish nightingale, who as Cha Cha O'Brien, Castanet-clacking Miami nightclub singer on TV's Surfside 6, for three years played herself down to the last brightly mangled bit of syntax; following surgery for damaged heart valves; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 13, 1963 | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...ornate grilles on either side of the stage in a theater are a number of rooms, each bristling with ranks of pipe (one rank sounds like a flute, another a musical foghorn, a saxophone, a violin, a trumpet) or the percussion instruments, ranging from a grand piano to a castanet, which gives the Wurlitzer its one-man-band versatility. These organ chambers must be duplicated in a home installation, and even the smallest organ needs more space than a kitchen for its hundreds of pipes, which vary in size from a pea shooter to a howitzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Bigger Than Stereo | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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