kettledrums

• The two companions fly through the air on wooden horses; and the illusion of this giddy voyage is given by chromatic passages on the flutes, harps, kettledrums, and a “windmachine,” while “the tremolo of the double basses on the key-note shows that the horses have never left the earth.”[177] But I must stop. —  Musicians of To-Day
• He speaks of the impression which flutes, violins, kettledrums, and trumpets made on him, but nowhere of the dramatic representatives in whose stead, as he puts it, those instruments spoke. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1
• The effect of the brass and the kettledrums was too coarse, too material; the spectator should be terror-struck by the cry of Senta on seeing the Dutchman, not by kettledrum and brass. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1
• The percussion section contains a variety of instruments, including four kettledrums, and such instruments as the chimes, xylophone, triangle, and cymbals.
• Tempered by proud kettledrums, "Time Is Thee Enemy" may dwell on combating old age, but it sounds like a proud Viking dirge welcoming Valhalla. —  Side-Line news feed

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