A well-trained tree looks like a goblet, with four or five branches around an empty centre.
A goblet-shaped drum played standing or sitting, it takes the lead in most ensembles.
He fills a large crystal goblet with the water of the Neva, and presents it to the Emperor, who drinks it off to the health of the dear citizens of his capital.
The man took a tall glass goblet with a metal base, filled it with ink-black nasty liquid, got his assistant to stir it up, threw it at the teacher!
There is not, probably, on the face of the globe another glass of water that brings a better price, for it is customary for the Emperor to fill the goblet with ducats before he returns it to the commandant.
Such, at least, was the custom; but the goblet was found to have a sad tendency to enlarge its dimensions, so that the Emperor began to perceive that he had every year a larger dose of water to drink, and a greater number of ducats to pay for it.
This powerful brew, by no means everyone's goblet of mead, is served up in a gloomy (albeit acoustically peerless) festival theatre with seats hard enough to preclude a doze by even the least committed Wagnerite.These strains on ears and rumps remain.
(To hear audio clips of a variety of drums, see bass drum, changgo, snare drum, tambourine, tenor drum, and timpani.) Tubular drums assume many shapes (goblet, hourglass, barrel, etc.) and are considered shallow if the height is less than the diameter.
Today, in Kedah, the ensemble consists of five instruments: one big goblet drum (negara), two double-headed drums (gendang), one long oboe (nafiri), one small oboe (nafiri), and one gong.
The melodic instruments are supported by a percussion group consisting of pairs of goblet-shaped drums (gedombak), cylindrical drums (gendang), barrel drums (geduk), gongs lying on a support (canang), suspended gongs (gong) or, sometimes, a row of gongs played by two or three men, and one pair of cymbals (kesi).
They may be unicellular, as are the goblet cells of fishes, or multicellular, as are the sweat glands of humans.
