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
Stage Manager Manning Gurian. manage to live in midtown Manhattan, not ten blocks off Broadway, as quietly as two deaf theater mice in a kettledrum.
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
To hear him talk, you'd think I'd been playing the kettledrum.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
