Sentence examples for high drum from inspiring English sources
It clattered, chugged, gathered steam and used high drum tones to whoop like a train whistle.
The attacker, identified by Chinese state news media as Tang Yongming, 47, jumped to his death from a 130-foot high Drum Tower balcony immediately after the stabbings.
It is the only marvel, says Mr Unger, in which his contribution is not immediately apparent, until you know that it was Michelangelo who insisted that St Peter's should be crowned with a soaring dome on a high drum.
It was also for Richelieu that Lemercier built the Church of the Sorbonne (begun 1626), perhaps the earliest French building to have a dome set on a high drum.
Other skins at various stages of the pickling and bleaching process sat in the vats or dripped on racks, while a 12 ft high drum rumbled on rollers in the corner, drying the leather.
Among the earliest monuments are the mosque of ʿAmr built in Egypt in 641 642 and the famous Dome of the Rock of Jerusalem (finished in 691), which, however, is not a mosque but a monument, a concentric-circular structure consisting of a wooden dome set on a high drum and resting on four tiers and 12 columns.
From this point, the dancer improvises piquetes (accents) to challenge or converse with the subidor (high-pitched drum).
They are percussive patterns, produced either by hand clapping or on some musical instrument of penetrating sound quality, such as a bell, a high-pitched drum, the rim or body of a drum, a bottle, an ax blade, a calabash, a percussion beam, concussion sticks, or a high-pitched xylophone key.
that permitted high drums and variations in the curvature of the dome.
He later studied at the Juilliard School and eventually learned to play a number of instruments, including the piano, saxophone, vibraphone, and timbales (paired high-pitched drums).
By bending his left leg and placing his foot on the top of the knee-high drum, Mr. Chen could adjust the tension of the skin to produce sputtering volleys of pitched rhythmic riffs.
