kettledrum

The movement began with loud kettledrums, and the crowd cheered wildly.

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

In Berlin, hundreds of workers took to the streets with kettledrums and trumpets to underline their demand for a bigger share of profits from a construction boom that has supported growth in Europe's largest economy.

She describes raucous afternoon teas called “kettledrums” during the Gilded Age, a peculiar and loud practice involving the clinking and exchange of spoons.

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.”