kettledrum
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Writing in the Bauhaus Journal, he said that each production required an “appropriate aural expression,” but added, “For the time being, such simple stimulators as the gong and the kettledrum are enough.”
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2019
The kettledrum thump of the furnace kicking on.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2018
A kettledrum and French horn came to rest 30 yds. from the blast.
From Time Magazine Archive
His father started him playing the kettledrum when he was 4; later he went abroad to study piano.
From Time Magazine Archive
A kettledrum of a thump told him that life still breathed within the yards of white smock.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
