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
Surely, to achieve a good sound, a French horn does not become a violin, nor does a piccolo turn into a kettledrum; rather, each strives harder to play in harmony with the others.
From Time Magazine Archive
To hear him talk, you'd think I'd been playing the kettledrum.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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Musical Instruments - Middle School
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