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Slate

Slate

for chamber brass and percussion
Duration: 5'
Part of The Chamber Winds Project

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Slate
/slāt/ 

A fine-grained, clayey metamorphic rock that cleaves, or splits, readily into thin slabs having great tensile strength and durability. The direction of cleavage depends upon the direction of the stresses applied during metamorphism. -from the Encyclopaedia Britannica

Photo by Devon Janse van Rensburg

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