Large percussion musical instrument which produces a definite pitch.
A large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it.
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Examples for "kettledrums "
Examples for "kettledrums "
1 I will play on the lute, and you shall beat the kettledrums .
2 Mounted behind him, concealed under a tarp, were two brass kettledrums .
3 Flags waved, kettledrums beat, fans were flung into my very lap to autograph.
4 They came anyway, filling his ears like the pounding of kettledrums .
5 He heard the first major drive of strings and kettledrums .
1 The membrana tympani is larger than in other quadrupeds of the same size.
2 Wilson reports two cases of rupture of the membrane tympani caused by diving.
3 Synergism of chorda tympani responses to a mixture of MSG and IMP was not observed.
4 One temporal bone showed fibrosis and osteogenesis in the scala tympani of the basal turn.
5 My heart was thudding like a slowly beaten tympani .
1 The effects of the anti-gelatinase antibodies and the TIMPs are not additive.
2 TIMPs were also found bound to selective regions of extracellular matrix.
3 Little is known about the role of MMPs and TIMPs in severe sepsis.
4 HUCB-MSCs treatment also prevented the induction of TIMPs expression.
5 Regulation of type IV collagen may contribute to the balance of MMPs and TIMPs in LSCC.
1 There was a cry; Georgiana had swooned sideways on to Lord Timpany 's shoulder.
2 At any moment she might die; at any moment she might become Lady Timpany .
3 If she became Lady Timpany : it was a horrible thought.
4 Egbert and me was at school at Timpany 's ; he's going to Eton next half.
5 Mr Coppel was drafted in after founder Allen Timpany resigned and its shares were suspended.
1 A tympany beat and the sound track filled with violins.
2 Jake took piano lessons for a year, then drums, and was an expert on tympany in four years.
3 For performance Nature has no mercy, and sacrifices the performer to get it done,-makesa dropsy or a tympany of him.
4 These Frogs baked and beat to Powder, and taken with Orrice-Root cures a Tympany .
5 Tympany 's solution will revolutionise how ENT surgeons operate and will also allow many more procedures to be carried out in outpatient settings.
1 The writer visits May Timpano , a woman in her 50's, who lives on the top floor.
2 Miss Timpano had visited the house for all those years and has lived there for the past six.
3 Miss Timpano had met Fred while she had been a waitress at Kirsch's, and the two were companions for thirty years.
1 Her heart boomed like a kettle drum , and again she looked away.
2 His heart pounded like a kettle drum in his ears.
3 After two a kettle drum was banging fortissimo.
4 Another plaything of his was a kettle drum with which he amused himself in the summer twilight for many seasons.
5 Those membranes are like two little kettle drums , and they are its song organs.
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.
15 I looked down to where he was pointing, my teeth changing to a quieter timpani .
16 The rhythmic timpani beat of tires on planks stopped.
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