kettle-drum

Sri Tattari — The name implies a kettle-drum, or any musical instrument.

Chausath Yogini Temple - Inventory of Goddesses and Gods | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context 2010

A kettle-drum was clashing, and here were the loading parties, civilians and followers and even some of the women, and a couple of bhistis, * (* Native water-carriers.) and then Wheeler himself, with Moore at his heels, bawling orders, and behind him on the barrack-roof the torn Union jack was being hauled up to flap limply in the warm dawn air.

Fiancée 2010

There are choirs, obscure instruments and thundering kettle-drum rolls.

Sufjan Stevens Delights People with surprise EP 2010

Then he beat the kettle-drum and up came the dromedaries, and they mounted and fared on other seven days.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Hasan went without the city and beat the kettle-drum, whereupon up came the dromedaries and he loaded twenty of them with rarities of

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then they beat the magical kettle-drum and up came the dromedaries from all sides.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

“Tabl” (vulg. baz) = a kettle-drum about half a foot broad held in the left hand and beaten with a stick or leathern thong.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The city of Toronto furnished this tale of a black woman named Clara Ford, dubbed a "remarkable specimen of femininity" -- because she disguised herself as a man, carried a revolver, played the coronet and kettle-drum, read works relating to love and murder, drove a hack for two years, was a choir boy in an Episcopal church, and joined a Socialist group solely for the purpose of haranguing men who held socialist views.

The Lost Art of Writing Crime Headlines 2005

No one could spin a period and kettle-drum its ending the way he could.

More ancient beer! And other stuff . . . 2007

Her description was here suddenly interrupted by the signal for assault, which was given by the blast of a shrill bugle, and at once answered by a flourish of the Norman trumpets from the battlements, which, mingled with the deep and hollow clang of the nakers, (a species of kettle-drum,) retorted in notes of defiance the challenge of the enemy.

Ivanhoe 2004