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

Stage Manager Manning Gurian. manage to live in midtown Manhattan, not ten blocks off Broadway, as quietly as two deaf theater mice in a kettledrum.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her voice today sounds like gravel dripping onto a kettledrum; her teeth have been capped four times; her tall, big-boned frame suggests the rambling form of her older brother, Dan Dailey.

From Time Magazine Archive

The drummer was banging his biggest kettledrum to make it sound like a rumbling cannon.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein