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Meanings of timpano in English

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A brass percussion instrument with a defined pitch.

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        Examples for "timpani"
        Examples for "timpani"
        1
        The students took up a position one by one, behind the timpani.
        The new yorker
        2
        Making a timpani of the floor, Merlin galloped out of the room.
        Breathless
        3
        This Morning's theme tune was played by a string quartet and timpani.
        The Guardian
        4
        Add a falsetto vocal, swooping strings, timpani and an oboe or two.
        The Guardian
        5
        Molto vivace The Scherzo is a madcap chase launched by the timpani.
        Radio NZ
        1
        I will play on the lute, and you shall beat the kettledrums.
        Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories / The Young Folks Treasu...
        2
        Mounted behind him, concealed under a tarp, were two brass kettledrums.
        Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods
        3
        Flags waved, kettledrums beat, fans were flung into my very lap to autograph.
        Rezanov
        4
        They came anyway, filling his ears like the pounding of kettledrums.
        The bourne identity
        5
        He heard the first major drive of strings and kettledrums.
        Angel time: the songs of the seraphim
        Usage of timpano in English
        1
        The writer visits May Timpano, a woman in her 50's, who lives on the top floor.
        The new yorker
        2
        Miss Timpano had visited the house for all those years and has lived there for the past six.
        The new yorker
        3
        Miss Timpano had met Fred while she had been a waitress at Kirsch's, and the two were companions for thirty years.
        The new yorker