tympani : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tympani	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for tympani
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tympani n a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it Synonym(s): kettle, kettledrum, tympanum, tympani, timpani
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kettledrum \Ket"tle*drum`\ (-dr[ucr]m`), n. 1. (Mus.) A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it. Note: Kettledrums, in pairs, were formerly used in martial music for cavalry, but are now chiefly confined to orchestras, where they are called {tympani}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Tympano \[d8]Tym"pa*no\, n.; pl. {Tympani}. [It. timpano. See {Tympanum}.] (Mus.) A kettledrum; -- chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See {Kettledrum}. [Written also {timpano}.]