The whole machine roared like a gigantic tam-tam to the vibration of the Venturis. From Wordnik.com. [Cities In Flight]
Goodsall: guitar Giblin: bass Robinson: synthesizers and tam-tam Lumley: keyboards Collins: drums. From Wordnik.com. [DISCOGRAPHY: Genesis, by Scott McMahan] Reference
No, that's a percussionist called Jimmy Blades having a "J Arthur Rank" on a chau gong or tam-tam. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Damage] Reference
While actual meet-ups are underway throughout the country, the electronic tam-tam is also spreading via Twitter. From Wordnik.com. [In Italy, Online Activism Fires Up ���No Berlusconi Day���] Reference
CURNOW: With the disease still ravaging the continent, the song a call to each African to act as a tam-tam drum and to pass on the message to those who have not heard it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2004] Reference
Then there is the thump, thump of the tam-tam, the whistling of fifes, and the screeching of a horrible instrument resembling a fiddle, which can only be compared with the Belzebub music of Hawai. From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
Ce tot atita tam-tam cu melodia asta a lui Brenciu "Simbata, luni"?. From Wordnik.com. [Latest posts @WeBlog.ro] Reference
When struck, a traditional Chinese gong - properly called a tam-tam - produces. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
It's as if they said, 'Doudou, don't go to school, you must come and play the tam-tam'. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
If you don't, you can get an idea of what we built browsing take a peek, help us to make that tam-tam even louder!. From Wordnik.com. [Site Home] Reference
DAKAR (AFP) - When he was a child of 10, Doudou Ndiaye Rose "got sidetracked" on his way to school in Senegal by the beating of a tam-tam. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
The noisy tam-tam, or a couple of violins, headed the procession, and greater or less followed, who, laughing and singing, danced from house to house, or from one place to another. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey Round the World] Reference
Biret keeps the left-hand part fluid and active, always creating the effect of two hands in concert with wood-block, tam-tam, four horns, and harp and an assortment of colors in tempo and rhythm. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
Till a late hour of the night this town was very lively: processions of men and a number of women and children followed the noise of the tam-tam, which they accompanied with a wild, howling song, and proceeded to some tree, under which an image of an idol was set up. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey Round the World] Reference
The bridegroom then departs with his friends; a closely covered waggon, which has been held in readiness, is drawn up to the door; the females slip into the house, bring out the thickly-veiled bride, push her into the waggon, and follow her with the melodious music of the tam-tam. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey Round the World] Reference
I presently reached a glade in a thicket, about eight yards across, that had a scent of lime and orange, where the just-sufficient twilight enabled me to see some old bones, three skulls, and the edge of a tam-tam peeping from a tuft of wild corn with corn-flowers, and here and there some golden champac, and all about a profusion of musk-roses. From Wordnik.com. [The Purple Cloud] Reference
A couple of musicians, one of whom played the tam-tam and another. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
A tam-tam, together with some shrill trumpets and fifes, is played before the door of the temple. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey Round the World] Reference
"barraboula" of the negroes, dancing their African dances in the glare of torches and to the monotonous sound of the tam-tam. From Wordnik.com. [Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon] Reference
For the sound of the tam-tam is heard from afar. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
“Ballet Mecanique”, which includes xylophones, bass drums, tam-tam, pianists, electric bells, a siren, airplane propellers, and a volley of player pianos. From Wordnik.com. [Next Sunday: Dorkbot PDX « Dyepot, Teapot] Reference
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