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
His father started him playing the kettledrum when he was 4; later he went abroad to study piano.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
