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Orchestral kettledrums
Answer for the clue "Orchestral kettledrums ", 7 letters:
timpani
Alternative clues for the word timpani
- Percussion set
- Kettledrums (I, not Y)
- Percussion instruments curtailed tempo with a lot of agitation
- They're hit in a mine on the way up, Mike admitted
- Monkey stopping to beat one set of drums
- Percussion instrument
- Rubbish inside most of chicken drumsticks to go on these?
- Some drums
- Percussionist's set
Word definitions for timpani in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Timpano \Tim"pa*no\, n.; pl. Timpani . [It.] (Mus.) See Tympano .
Usage examples of timpani.
Far more people had fussed over Christine than around the prima donna, despite the fact that Dame Timpani had come around and fainted again quite pointedly several times and had eventually been forced to go for hysterics.
His heart was pounding like a timpani, but he managed to keep his voice steady.
With it came the delicate percussion of rainfall, the timpani of distant lightning.
He listened so hard that it seemed his blood roared and his heart beat like a timpani, but even over those distractions he could still make out the sound of footsteps.
Muffled timpani measured the intruder’s cat tread across the hall as Dane stepped down to meet him.