What is "snare drums"

Usage examples of "snare drums".

Many of the instruments seemed to be of museum quality, except for the snare drums and kettledrums, which sparkled with brand-new chrome.

Apart from the rattle of the snare drums, there was just the clank of metal equipment and the creak of leather to interrupt the hush.

The opening fat-fry of snare drums, the lambeg pumping away, and then the flutes.

Flanking the procession were four drummers, two on each side, their snare drums snapping out the slow cadence of the death march, erratically out of sequence because of the unexpected rocks and the unseen flat grave markers in the darkness of the bordering grass.

It was the Turkish March from The Ruins of Athens, not his favourite, but good enough for this rabble with its piercing woodwinds and rattling snare drums, effects that he could reproduce in his head if not his muttering, groaning voice.

It was the Turkish March from The Ruins of Athens, not his favorite, but good enough for this rabble with its piercing woodwinds and rattling snare drums, effects that he could reproduce in his head if not his muttering, groaning voice.

I smiled as if caterers always carried snare drums and trombone cases.

She could identify a symphony of instruments--flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns of all kinds, violins, timpani, snare drums--but there was no melody, no identifiable cohesive structure, merely a sense of structure too subtle to quite hear, waves of sound that were sometimes pleasant and sometimes jarringly discordant, now loud, now soft, ebbing and flowing.

All evening the adscreens had been off -- a blank beige stripe around the top of the walls -- and at any moment might spring on, with trumpets and snare drums and millisecond images flashing from right to left: a hand, an eye, a lower lip, the left half of a woman's surprised face, then a soup can or a bag of potato chips.