kettledrum in English

noun
1
a large drum shaped like a bowl, with a membrane adjustable for tension (and so pitch) stretched across.
And men beat on basins, tin pans, bass drums, and kettledrums .

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1. Timpani or as it's sometimes called a kettledrum, and it was playing two different pitches, actually sort of playing this pitch and this pitch, the octave and then the fifth.

2. Before then, Du Pulei once strongly requested the husband to arrange her to come on stage the performance, she the matter which must do only at the entire field concert is, sounds the kettledrum .