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I was at a dinner party sitting opposite an opera company tympanist.
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Nary a tympanist, trombonist nor tuba player in the San Diego Youth Symphony complained of not being able to follow the leader.
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The daughter of an Altoona, Pa., insurance agent, Elaine Shaffer got her first musical experience as a tympanist in her high school orchestra.
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- A person who plays the kettledrums
- (tympani) kettle: a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
- (Tympani) Timpani (also known as kettledrums) are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper, and more recently, constructed of more lightweight fiberglass. ...
- (tympani) Alternative spelling of timpani
- (tympani) (kettle drums) A very large drum made of copper or brass. Most often used in orchestras and symphonies. This drum has a foot pedal that is attached to the head mechanism. When the foot pedal is depressed, the kettle drum makes a unique, "boing" type of sound.
- (tympani) Kettle drum, or in an orchestrion or organ, kettle drum effect made by smaller beaters on a bass drum. Contemporary spelling is "timpani," but during the golden age of automatic musical instruments, "tympani" was more popular and is used throughout this book. * German: Pauke, Pauken
