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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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"Bass drum" Quotes from Famous Books



... was the exciting day to Johnny Filgee, not only for the delightfully bewildering clamor of the brass band, in which, between the trombone and the bass drum, he had got inextricably mixed; not only for the half-frightening explosions of the anvils and the maddening smell of the gunpowder which had exalted his infant soul to sudden and irrelevant whoopings, but for a singular occurrence that ...
— Cressy • Bret Harte


Words linked to "Bass drum" :   gran casa, tympan, drum, membranophone


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