kettledrum

"Nay, nay," said Don Quixote at this; "on that point of the bells Master Pedro is very inaccurate, for bells are not in use among the Moors; only kettledrums, and a kind of small trumpet somewhat like our clarion; to ring bells this way in Sansuena is unquestionably a great absurdity."

Must one clatter like kettledrums and penitential preachers?

The Queen of Denmark, a very buxom lady, though no doubt historically brazen, was considered by the public to have too much brass about her; her chin being attached to her diadem by a broad band of that metal (as if she had a gorgeous toothache), her waist being encircled by another, and each of her arms by another, so that she was openly mentioned as "the kettledrum." The noble boy in the ancestral boots, was inconsistent; representing himself, as it were in one breath, as an able seaman, a strolling actor, a grave-digger, a clergyman, and a person of the utmost importance at a Court fencing-match, on the authority of whose practised eye and nice discrimination the finest strokes were judged.

Gosha-naghara is Azerbaijani version for small kettledrums.

HHHHH It was good to see old fashioned kettledrums on stage to create a period sound for Beethoven's Overture Leonora No 3.

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We don't have to listen to those grandstanding vocal cords mimicking Tchaikovsky kettledrums with an accusatory fervor that would have gotten him laughed offstage in a high school production of Witness for the Prosecution.

Which musical instruments are also called Kettledrums? 16 13.

The tassa in fact refers to a small ensemble of one or two medium-sized kettledrums, traditionally made from a clay shell (now lightweight metal) with a goatskin head (now a synthetic material).

head over heels to the sound of the big kettledrums in the orchestra.

Ivory and bronze kettledrums as trade commodities can be traced far back in time to very early civilizations.