Clash cymbals are cymbals played in identical pairs by holding one cymbal in each hand and striking the two together.
They are also called hand cymbals, however a hand cymbal can also be a suspended cymbal struck by hand rather than with a beater, and crash cymbals, however a crash cymbal is more commonly a medium sized and strongly tapered suspended cymbal struck with a drum stick.
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“When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it—a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand—as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it is bad art.”
—Marc Chagall (1889–1985)