Sentence examples for drums were used from inspiring English sources

In ancient Sumer, large frame drums were used in temple rituals.

Giant frame drums were used in the temples of ancient Sumer, and Mesopotamian objects from about 3000 bce depict frame drums and small cylindrical drums played horizontally and vertically.

Similar small drums were used quite recently as bride prices; and many of the islands today produce textile designs and ceremonial bronzes that are strikingly reminiscent of Dong Son ornament.

One of his direct-line ancestors, William Dillon, played the fife in the Second Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army, when the fife and drums were used as military signaling instruments before being supplanted for that function in the 1870's by the bugle.

While drums were used on the last occasion of a Chinese leader's visit to the UK to drown out pro-democracy and Tibet protesters, regulations governing the playing of instruments in royal parks mean that they will not be allowed to ramp up the decibels.

Where acoustic drums were used, they would be recorded with multiple microphones and then premixed down into a stereo mix.

"Drums are used as a means of communicating from one village to another," he said.

In drum withering, rotating, perforated drums are used instead of troughs, and in tunnel withering, leaf is spread on tats carried by mobile trolleys and is subjected to hot-air blasts in a tunnel.

The modern snare drum has a cylindrical shell of wood, plywood, or metal 5 12 inches (13 30 cm) high and 14 16 inches (35 40 cm) in diameter; deeper models, called field or guard's pattern drums, are used in many military bands.

A much stronger arrangement of drums are used in the second verse.

On "With Love Mr. Brownn's drums are used to create the weaving percussive patterns that move the song along so beautifully.