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• n  a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it

• He bowed again, and a kettledrum thundered to begin the premiere of Modernist Composer Henry Cowell's Concerto for Koto and Orchestra, the first concerto ever composed by a .
• His father started him playing the kettledrum when he was 4; later he went abroad to study piano.
• The record companies looked as if they had been hit over the head with a kettledrum.

• kettle
• tympanum
• tympani
• timpani