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Definition of Tympanists
1. tympanist [n] - See also: tympanist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tympanists
Literary usage of Tympanists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1877)
"Besides the Court and field trumpeters and tympanists, who, like the other
musicians, were bound to assist at all times in Eisenstadt and on journeys, ..."
2. Works by Jean Calvin, Calvin Translation Society (1860)
"... there,—some drinking, some sleeping, and some vomiting; some piping, some
whistling; tympanists and harpers playing; some disputing, some quarrelling! ..."
3. Field Genealogy: Being the Record of All the Field Family in America, Whose by Frederick Clifton Pierce (1901)
"... he was one of the tympanists at both the ' ' Peace Jubilees," and is now in
his sixth season as one of the percussion instrument players of the Boston ..."
4. The Annals of Ireland by John Clyn, Richard Butler, Thady Dowling (1849)
"... so pre-eminent that he was a phce- uix in his art, and with him fell about
twenty tympanists, who were lus scholars. ..."
5. History of the Viceroys of Ireland: With Notices of the Castle of Dublin and by John Thomas Gilbert (1865)
"... preeminently a phoenix in his art," and that with him were slain about twenty
tympanists, his pupils. " If," adds the Franciscan writer, " Mac Carroll ..."
6. Annals of Ireland: Three Fragments by Duald Mac Firbis, Duald MacFirbis, John O'Donovan, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (1860)
"... there,—some drinking, some sleeping, and some vomiting; some piping, some
whistling; tympanists and harpers playing; some disputing, some quarrelling! ..."
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