kettledrum

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

To hear him talk, you'd think I'd been playing the kettledrum.

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.”

In 1853, a kettledrum was introduced.

The kettledrum thump of the furnace kicking on.