0 a piece of metal that hangs inside a bell and makes the bell ring when it hits the sides
1 a piece of metal hanging inside a bell which makes the bell ring by hitting its sides
Its weight is thirty-two thousand pounds—the clapper alone weighing a thousand pounds.
The Indian bell-ringer rings them by a rope fastened to each clapper.
The dancers used hand clappers as an accompanying instrument, creating a lascivious dance similar to modern-day castanet performances.
Occasionally the clappers have leather pads (called "muffles") strapped around them to quieten the bells when practice ringing to avoid annoying the neighbourhood.
On arrival, the storyteller used two wooden clappers, called "hyoshigi", to announce his arrival.
Traditionally bell clappers were standard cast grey iron with a razor-like crystalline structure that led to sudden catastrophic failure over time.
The 12 ductile-iron clappers were replaced by the original, overhauled wrought-iron clappers and other minor works carried out.
In the spaces between these bells hang two metal clappers, small pendulums, on nonconductive threads.
