Crossword-Solution: TIMPANI
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Timpani | pl. | of Timpano |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TIMPANI | anagram | IMPAINT |
We have 30 clues for the answer “TIMPANI”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Certain drum set | 1 answer |
| Struck instruments | 1 answer |
| Very large drums | 1 answer |
| Tunable drums | 1 answer |
| The hunters in "Peter and the Wolf" | 1 answer |
| Symphonic set | 1 answer |
| Set of large percussion instruments | 1 answer |
| Set of kettledrums | 1 answer |
| Percussion section instruments | 1 answer |
| Orchestral kettledrums | 1 answer |
| Literally, "drums," in Italian | 1 answer |
| Hunters' representation in "Peter and the Wolf" | 1 answer |
| Gunshot providers in "Peter and the Wolf" | 1 answer |
| Drums in concerts | 1 answer |
| Drum prominently heard in "2001: A Space Odyssey" | 1 answer |
| Big drums | 1 answer |
| Band set | 1 answer |
| Back-of-orchestra instruments | 1 answer |
| Big part of an orchestra | 2 answers |
| *Percussionist's set | 2 answers |
| Kettle drum. | 2 answers |
| Tympani | 3 answers |
| Some drums | 3 answers |
| Percussion set | 4 answers |
| Drum set | 5 answers |
| Kettledrums | 6 answers |
| Kettledrum | 9 answers |
| Drums. | 12 answers |
| Percussion instruments | 12 answers |
| Percussion instrument | 25 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TIMPANI (5)
RAPTURE [Illustration: Modéré] As Mélisande whispers suddenly to Pelléas that there is some one behind them, a menacing version of the _Vengeance_ theme is played, _pp_, by the basses, trombones, and timpani.
Lastly, the sound boomed onto the startled scientists and soldiers like the pounding of great timpani under the vaulted dome of the burning sky.
Even _il maestro Cappeletti, il professore di timpani_, she said, speaking of him with the greatest respect, came in for his share, when, in a rehearsal under Rossini, he made some blunder.
For the instrumental accompaniments at least twenty players are required: viz., 2 or 3 first Violins, 2 or 3 second Violins, 4 Violas, 2 Violoncelli, 1 Contrabasso, 2 or more Flutes, 2 or 3 Oboi, 1 or 2 Fagotti, 3 Trombe, 1 Timpani.
Here is a list of the instruments of a complete orchestra: First violins 15, second violins 12, violas 10, violoncellos 10, double basses 8, flutes 2, piccolo 1, oboes, cor Anglais, clarionet, corno di bassetto, bassoon, double bassoon, trumpets, horns, trombones, timpani, cornet à piston, bass trumpet, tenor tuba, ophicleide, contra bass tuba, harp, bass drum, cymbals.
Quotes with TIMPANI (2)
Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying.
I gain nothing but pleasure from writing fiction; short stories are foreplay, novellas are heavy petting — but novels are the full monte. Frankly, if I didn't enjoy writing novels I wouldn't do it — the world hardly needs any more and I can think of numerous more useful things someone with my skills could be engaged in. As it is, the immersion in parallel but believable worlds satisfies all my demands for vicarious experience, voyeurism and philosophic calithenics. I even enj…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 35 times in crossword archives (1975–2024).