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

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

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

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