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• n  a person who plays the kettledrums

• The tympanist does sleight of hand.
• The smoothest pate in the orchestra belongs to Alfred Friese, oldtime tympanist of the New York Philharmonic, whose pupil, young black-mopped Saul Goodman, now stands behind .
• His favorite Hollywood story: "Only a tympanist was present for all four rehearsals before an important concert.

• timpanist