Wiktionary
kettle drums
n. (kettle drum English)
Usage examples of "kettle drums".
The music ended with a clash of cymbals and a roll of kettle drums.
When he was with the Super-guy, it was all kettle drums and French horns.
A thunderous roll of drums and a blare of trumpets rose through the cheers, produced by a dozen more of Dobraine's men who wore crimson tabards with the black-and-white disc on the chest, half carrying long trumpets draped in identical cloths, the other half with kettle drums also decorated slung on either side of the horses.
She was so sensitive that it sounded like kettle drums to her ears, though she knew it was only an ordinary noise.