Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who beats the kettledrum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who plays on a kettledrum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
musician who plays thekettledrum .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Last night I did some conversion work on a Suren 30mm cuirassier trumpeter and turned him into a kettledrummer, sort of like the one pictured above.
Archive 2007-10-01 Der Alte Fritz 2007
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Tonight, I will prime the kettledrummer and then start the painting process later in the week.
Archive 2007-10-01 Der Alte Fritz 2007
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The first picture shows the Suren Prussian cuirassier trumpeter painted as a kettledrummer and as a cuirassier trumpeter.
Archive 2007-10-01 Der Alte Fritz 2007
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I finished up a couple of squadrons of 30mm Suren SYW Prussian cuirassiers last night, including the trumpeters and the kettledrummer mention in my previous posting.
Archive 2007-10-01 Der Alte Fritz 2007
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For the kettledrums, I used the drums that come with the Foundry Prussian kettledrummer and merely drilled a hole into the each side of the neck on the horse.
Archive 2007-10-01 Der Alte Fritz 2007
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The kettledrummer of that day had a peculiar habit of breaking in before the rest of the orchestra.
Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919
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The kettledrummer of that day had a peculiar habit of breaking in before the rest of the orchestra.
Musical Memories Camille Saint-Sa��ns 1878
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One is headed "Anectod," and runs: "At a grand concert, as the director was about to begin the first number, the kettledrummer called loudly to him, asking him to wait a moment, because his two drums were not in tune.
Joseph Haydn Hadden, J Cuthbert 1902
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