Associations to the word «Tympani»

Wiktionary

TYMPANI, noun. Alternative spelling of timpani

Dictionary definition

TYMPANI, noun. A large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope