Large percussion musical instrument which produces a definite pitch.
Synonyms
Examples for "kettle"
Examples for "kettle"
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Today we have the new Response, a color changing kettle from Kenwood.
2
High rise informal settlements are a different kettle of fish, he said.
3
The water in the kettle was boiling and he made the coffee.
4
The bright copper kettle and the tin dish shine in the sun.
5
Put the remainder of the birds in the kettle for a stew.
1
They are without the tympanum and tympanic cavity, and all its appendages.
2
With great effort Sharn-igon scratched the words out on his tympanum.
3
And music played the tympanum and the pipe, the cithara and the harp.
4
The relief panel in the tympanum represents various types of industry.
5
The tympanum of the ear yields to the fierce external pressure.
1
The whole capsule vibrated with it like a pea in a kettledrum.
2
The priest beat upon a kettledrum, and the echoes rolled through the temple.
3
I will play the lute, and you shall beat the kettledrum.
4
I can play the lute, and you can play the kettledrum.
5
At half-past eleven a kettledrum sounds a summons to the Jami or Cathedral.
1
The students took up a position one by one, behind the timpani.
2
Making a timpani of the floor, Merlin galloped out of the room.
3
This Morning's theme tune was played by a string quartet and timpani.
4
Add a falsetto vocal, swooping strings, timpani and an oboe or two.
5
Molto vivace The Scherzo is a madcap chase launched by the timpani.
6
Unusually for a slow movement of this era, it includes trumpets and timpani.
7
Cellos and basses start, but then the timpani joins in, ever so slightly.
8
The movement's central climax of brass and timpani was powerfully delivered.
9
The gun clunked against the dumpster below like a timpani strike.
10
Elsewhere, timpani is in evidence on more than one occasion.
11
An arrangement on the album merged Arnaud's timpani-and-trumpet-infused march segueing into Williams' bombastic theme.
12
African djembe drums upon which the player sits replaced timpani.
13
It exaggerated every movement on it, thumping like a timpani.
14
The world premiere of her work which offers the timpani player a rare starring role.
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I looked down to where he was pointing, my teeth changing to a quieter timpani.
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The rhythmic timpani beat of tires on planks stopped.