A brass percussion instrument with a defined pitch.
Sinònims
Examples for "timpani"
Examples for "timpani"
1The students took up a position one by one, behind the timpani.
2Making a timpani of the floor, Merlin galloped out of the room.
3This Morning's theme tune was played by a string quartet and timpani.
4Add a falsetto vocal, swooping strings, timpani and an oboe or two.
5Molto vivace The Scherzo is a madcap chase launched by the timpani.
1I will play on the lute, and you shall beat the kettledrums.
2Mounted behind him, concealed under a tarp, were two brass kettledrums.
3Flags waved, kettledrums beat, fans were flung into my very lap to autograph.
4They came anyway, filling his ears like the pounding of kettledrums.
5He heard the first major drive of strings and kettledrums.
1The writer visits May Timpano, a woman in her 50's, who lives on the top floor.
2Miss Timpano had visited the house for all those years and has lived there for the past six.
3Miss Timpano had met Fred while she had been a waitress at Kirsch's, and the two were companions for thirty years.