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
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
A kettledrum of a thump told him that life still breathed within the yards of white smock.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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