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
Her voice today sounds like gravel dripping onto a kettledrum; her teeth have been capped four times; her tall, big-boned frame suggests the rambling form of her older brother, Dan Dailey.
From Time Magazine Archive
The 1944 Presidential campaign, which began as politely as a harpsichord duet, wound up with all the kettledrum banging of a Respighi crescendo.
From Time Magazine Archive
The drummer was banging his biggest kettledrum to make it sound like a rumbling cannon.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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