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Bass drum   /bæs drəm/   Listen
Bass drum

noun
1.
A large drum with two heads; makes a sound of indefinite but very low pitch.  Synonym: gran casa.





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... were unable to get into the concert hall of his famous rival. He would then listen outside the window and analyze the sound in this fashion: "Fifty per cent. of the sound is made by the tuba, 20 per cent. by the bass drum, 15 per cent. by the 'cello and 10 per cent. by the clarinet. There are some other instruments, but they are not loud and I guess if we can leave them out nobody will know the difference." So he makes up his orchestra out of ...
— Creative Chemistry - Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries • Edwin E. Slosson
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... went out to his yacht in a hackney launch. He was received at her snowy sides as if he were the emperor of somewhere come to visit one of his rear admirals. He went up the steps as if he were a school-boy caught playing hooky and going up-stairs to play the bass drum to his mother's slipper. ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
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... a sort. A trombone blatted—there was the staccato tuck of a snare drum, and the boom of a bass drum came in with ...
— When Egypt Went Broke • Holman Day
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... an electric bulb made portable by a coil of cord, and directing the reverberating hammering down of an additional brace of three orchestra chairs for which room had been found by shifting the position of the bass drum. ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst
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Words linked to "Bass drum" :   tympan, gran casa, drum, membranophone


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