The simulations reported here have shown that the behaviour of quite small clusters of material (here, up to 3120 atoms) already shows features that may be described by simple classical analysis. In particular, we have shown that the overall oscillations in the shape of the solid nanoclusters agree very well in frequency and magnitude with those deduced from classical elasticity theory. Furthermore, in the liquid phase, the droplet oscillations which are seen in the molecular dynamics simulations have frequencies which show that the surface tension of the simulated droplet is typical of experimentally determined surface tensions for ionic systems.