Music:Cymbals with tympani stick and jazz wire broom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Later Articles and Reviews] Reference

"Rock percussion sounds like tympani in Mahler to me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lili Haydn Is No Shrinking Violet] Reference

L, tensor tympani muscle; between M and K is the tympanic cavity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

Now there was a flourish of brass and tympani, punctuated by thunderclaps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Torc]

K, handle of malleus applied to the internal surface of the membrana tympani.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

In a world where the next crisis is a moment away... tympani shot/explosion.    From Wordnik.com.  ["You paint all Islamics the same way."] Reference

A tympani solo of thunder rolled overhead as Henry sat on the wall to catch his breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [DOWN BELOW] Reference

There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons, thundering, thundering all along the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning to Die in Miami] Reference

The shrill of trumpets and the sharp sound of tympani drums rose above the noise of the crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Scout]

In the first place, it makes it possible for sound waves to set the membrana tympani in vibration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference

We lie in bed listening to the tympani of rain on the til ... read more culture-customs lifestyles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your own celebration of the Day of the Dead] Reference

It is above the scala tympani and below the scala vestibula, and is separated from each by a membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference

We lie in bed listening to the tympani of rain on the tile roof and burrowing into each other's warmth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your own celebration of the Day of the Dead] Reference

Passing through the auditory canal, the waves strike against the membrana tympani, setting it into vibration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference

In the other, he held a small tympani drum exactly like the ones carried by wailing priests who trailed behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Scout]

Violins scraped and whined, tympani thudded like the beats of a dying heart, flutes played weird, atonal melodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Am Legend]

Being thin and delicately poised, the membrana tympani is easily made to vibrate by the sound waves that enter the auditory canal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference

(My favorite moment of throbbing inertia comes when someone says he's going to lunch and the announcement is met by a tympani roll.).    From Wordnik.com.  ['Button' Bends Time Into Grand Fable] Reference

The persistent throb of the march continued, and seemed to blend with the vibration of the roadway underneath into a single tympani.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

In the Tuba Mirum when all the tympani pounded away and each of the bands entered at the diminshed seventh very bluesy, what a noise!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meat and mortality | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

The area of the membrana tympani is about twenty times as great as the membrane of the internal ear which is acted upon by the stapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference

Played mostly basslines for about half an hour, treating the thunder as an enthusiastic but erratic and overmic'd tympani or kettle drum.    From Wordnik.com.  [thunder jam] Reference

Do not let Pulpit Pounders paradiddle a tympani on your skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Wilson reports two cases of rupture of the membrane tympani caused by diving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Clear forward into the angle between the jaw and the bulla tympani, to see XII. and XI.    From Wordnik.com.  [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference

There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons Thundering, thundering all along the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Germany plans memorial for music festival victims] Reference

The mobility of the membrana tympani should be tested by inflating the tympanum or by means of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Across this passage, at its inner extremity, is stretched a thin membrane, called membrana tympani.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference

The scala tympani curves all the way back around to reach the round window, just underneath the oval window.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]

As always, expect the band -- GREGG ALLMAN (vocals and keyboards), BUTCH TRUCKS (drums and tympani), JAIMOE (drums).    From Wordnik.com.  [Reader - MassLive.com] Reference

The New England Triptych included some fascinating tympani work, although the rest of the piece wasn't really my style.    From Wordnik.com.  [WEBmikey] Reference

The scala vestibuli and the scala tympani are separated down the center by two membranes: the vestibular membrane and the basilar membrane.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]