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Prepare for castanets, authentic Spanish guitar, and all-out female domination, as reigning flamenco diva María Juncal, from the Spanish Canary Islands, sets North Van's Centennial Theatre ablaze after burning through a European tour.— The Georgia Straight - News And Views
Baby Yui with the castanets was just too adorable; it's death by moe!!!— AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
With a sultry clickety-clack of Sevillean castanets, the strumming of veteran vihuelas, and the Mediterranean thumping on the adufe, the upside-down question mark received his name: interroverti, proposed by Nadine and Chris LaRoche.— Emdashes
Last of all, little Pluto came running with his unkindled torch,--Mas'r Henry wanted dancing Flor rummaged for her castanets, her tambourine, her ankle-rings,--they had all been thrown hither and thither,--and at length, as Pluto's torch flared up, ran tinkling along the turf, into the glow; and her voice broke, as she danced, into high, clear singing, triumphant singing, that welled up to the very sky, and made the air echo with sweetness.— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
She had borrowed two sets of castanets, a pair of cymbals, and a triangle, and with these loud-sounding instruments she and her companions emphasized the chorus.— The Luckiest Girl in the School

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