Kettledrums

Kettledrums are usually used in classical music in sets of two or more and are known by their Italian name, timpani.

kettledrum 2002

Kettledrums rumbled with the musical equivalent of a deluge as Mr. Terwilliger sank languidly into the roiling waters.

Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999

Kettledrums had been inaugurated the previous winter, and hardly a man been got to them.

The Californians Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

Kettledrums and trumpets announced the arrival of the Emperor and the Empress at the church, where the Prince Archbishop of Vienna, accompanied by the clergy, met them at the door and presented them with holy water; that done, he proceeded with his bishops to the foot of the altar, on the gospel-side.

The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise Arthur L��on Imbert de Saint-Amand 1867

Grand Dance and Chorus, accompanied with Kettledrums and Trumpets. "

The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Mark Lemon 1839

Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682-1738), is the first movement of Mouret's "First Suite in D," from his second book of Fanfares for Trumpets, Kettledrums, Violins and Oboes (published in Paris, ca. Wikipedia says of Mouret,

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