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kettledrum

[ket-l-druhm] / ˈkɛt lˌdrʌm /
NOUN
steel drum
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Writing in the Bauhaus Journal, he said that each production required an “appropriate aural expression,” but added, “For the time being, such simple stimulators as the gong and the kettledrum are enough.”

From New York Times Aug. 22, 2019

The kettledrum thump of the furnace kicking on.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 19, 2018

There was an ear-splitting kettledrum music to which devotees shrieked verses in gibberish; they built powerfully useless machines, wrote ridiculous "chemical" and "static" poems.

From Time Magazine Archive

Early in the New Deal, having noted the fun the Senate Banking & Currency Committee was having in Washington, Governor Olson began to kettledrum about how Northwestern investors had been swindled out of $100,000,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

The drummer was banging his biggest kettledrum to make it sound like a rumbling cannon.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein




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