bass drum

• “He had been standing beside them just a few minutes before, but his friends had an exciting hunt for him before they finally discovered the boy seated among the members of the band, beating the end of the bass drum with the bone of a turkey-leg that he had taken from the table in the banquet room.”

  The Scarecrow of Oz

• “We are now going down a storm, the entire audience on its feet, when Stewart, who is playing like a man possessed, snaps the metal rod of his bass drum pedal in half, closely followed by the collapse of the rest of his kit.”

  Broken Music, A Memoir

• “A band was playing close to the windmill and, though the music was too far away to be heard, Sharpe fancied he could hear the thump of the bass drum like a distant heartbeat.”

  Sharpe's Escape

• “Carla added a bass drum beat to anchor it all, then found a pattern on the toms that interlocked with Hedge's phasing.”

  War for the Oaks

• “When she walked into the room, my heart would pound like the bass drum in the Abbott High band and I would feel so elated I could hardly breathe.”

  Willie

• “One Sunday, rehearsing in their parents 'garage, Div picked up the twelve-string and started playing the euphorically jangly opening chords of Funny How Love Is. Recognising it and getting a sly look from Div, Ray joined in with a stomp on the bass drum and booming toms.”

  A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away

• “Carla set the bass drum and her drum machine to tossing the percussion back and forth.”

  War for the Oaks

• “So after a distracted irritated fit of play -- which leaves the toyspace in total disarray, Sendak-things cowering under a big bass drum -- Manni gets bored.”

  Asimov's Science Fiction

• “Harold would be attached to my bass drum by way of a suction cup at his THE CREED GOD 47 base, and would spend the evening quivering and vibrating in an erect position at the ladies in our audience.”

  Fictionaut: ɘloЯ

• “And her marriage to Edmund, who played bass drum for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, gave me faith that there was still some hope for the institution.”

  1st to Die

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