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- noun Plural form of
drumhead .
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Examples
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Toward the end of his life, Brando received several patents all related to a device that would help musicians tune drumheads.
Unexpected Inventions from Unexpected People | Impact Lab 2010
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His music cuts through boundaries as if slicing through, well, frosting: “Azul” fuses echoes of Couperin with the hiss of brushes striking drumheads, the rattles and whines of a bevy of colorful percussion instruments (Cyro Baptista and Jamey Haddad), and the drone of the hyperaccordion (an accordion with electronic enhancement, here played by the man who designed it, Michael Ward-Bergeman).
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Like a gazillion other viewers, I was mesmerized by a fantastic room full of strings and gears and cogs and drumheads, brass pipes and xylophone pads.
Claudia Ricci: All a Fake, But What Difference Does It Make? 2010
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Her father, the old man who had been stretching drumheads, came and sat opposite us in a lawn chair of his own, as if he were on a throne.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Her father, the old man who had been stretching drumheads, came and sat opposite us in a lawn chair of his own, as if he were on a throne.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Like a gazillion other viewers, I was mesmerized by a fantastic room full of strings and gears and cogs and drumheads, brass pipes and xylophone pads.
Claudia Ricci: All a Fake, But What Difference Does It Make? 2010
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Her father, the old man who had been stretching drumheads, came and sat opposite us in a lawn chair of his own, as if he were on a throne.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Also DW, Ludwig and Slingerland drums Vic Firth and Pro-Mark drumsticks and Remo and Evans drumheads are also made here.
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Speaking of Disney, one can't help but notice that there are a lot of little Mickey Mice running around and bouncing off of drumheads in these Universal cartoons.
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When the production pipeline is structured so that line producers, exec producers or whomever are rewarded for coming in under the schedules and budgets that are already as tight as oiled drumheads, then the system is ripe for abuse.
Archive 2007-08-01 Steve Hulett 2007
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