Accompanying many a New Year’s Eve toast to the end of another seemingly endless year will be the subtle tinkling of the ice in the glass.

Source: https://www.sudbury.com/beyond-local/beyond-local-the-icy-backstory-to-that-clink-clink-youll-hear-when-raising-a-toast-to-the-end-of-the-year-8019369

As St. Paul informs us, “If I should speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have charity, I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal” (1 Corinthians 13:1).

Source: https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/a-little-bit-of-christianity-is-a-dangerous-thing

July is a picnic and a red canoe and a sunburned neck and a softball game and ice tinkling in a tall glass.

Source: https://mobilemarketingwatch.com/july-quotes/

Recalling one party thrown by the female impersonator Danny La Rue, he later described 'Noel Coward, tinkling away on the ivories for all he was worth' and James Bond star Roger Moore drawing 'the girls like horseflies to a cow-pat'.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12196263/Soho-nightclub-boss-Ronnie-Knight-whos-died-89-ruthless-criminal.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Soulful tinkling of the pianos before the drums and bass kick in?

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/culture/live-reviews/dance-work-about-consent-is-funny-sexy-and-frankly-weird-20230821-p5dy98.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_culture