kettledrum

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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

He bowed again, and a kettledrum thundered to begin the premiere of Modernist Composer Henry Cowell's Concerto for Koto and Orchestra, the first concerto ever composed by a Westerner for the 1,100-year-old Japanese instrument.

From Time Magazine Archive

The 1944 Presidential campaign, which began as politely as a harpsichord duet, wound up with all the kettledrum banging of a Respighi crescendo.

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