Percussion instruments included the timpani, snare drum, tambourine and the castanets. Jota instruments include the castanets, guitar, bandurria, tambourines and sometimes the flute. The jota is common, here played with triangles, castanets, guitars, tambourines, accordions and zambombas. The use of jazz musical instruments (e.g., castanets, maracas) is unprecedented in Chinese musical history. Traditional instruments included alphorn, hammered dulcimer, fife, hurdy-gurdy, castanets, rebec, bagpipe, cittern and shawm. Rapid hip movement and use of brass finger cymbals/hand castanets characterized their dance. It is most noticeable in impulsive sounds from percussion instruments such as castanets or cymbals. Castanets are commonly used in the flamenco dance. The dancers also sometimes play small hand gongs and "yotsutake" castanets. Castanets are often played by singers or dancers. Dancers hold a pair of bamboo castanets in each hand. Escuela bolera, a balletic dance form, is also accompanied by castanets. Aeschylus retorts to this by mocking Euripides' choral meters and lyric monodies with castanets. See also the Toccata Festiva for castanets by Allan Stephenson. The song makes use of keyboards, castanets, and an instrumental section.