Tom-tom

Definition

tom-tom /'tɒm tɒm/ n (က) လက္ျဖင့္တီးရေသာ အာဖရိက (သို႔) အာရွဗံုရွည္။ (ခ) အာဖရိကသား၊ အေမရိကန္တို႔ တီထြင္သည့္ ဂ်တၨ္တီးလံုးတီးရန္သံုးေသာ အလားတူဗံုရွည္။

Examples

1. ‘She batters her tom-toms at a tempo either ahead of or behind the guitars and vocals.’
2. ‘The piece
3. scored for four percussionists
4. is played by the group using a big array of gongs
5. tam-tams
6. tom-toms
7. suspended brake drums and so on
8. but is neither bombastic nor boring.’
9. ‘However
10. every time Rudolph turned his back
11. the band (in their usual mischievous way) would surreptitiously displace a tom-tom or a speaker
12. causing Roddy to become increasingly agitated.’
13. ‘As for the drummer
14. suffice it to say he took it to another level with a much bigger kit
15. flying around the tom-toms and engaging in fierce double-bass song finales.’
16. ‘There's still no sign of synthesizers
17. but there are lots of tom-toms.’
18. ‘The opening song marches back and forth
19. back and forth on the tom-toms
20. while guitar chords are smacked awake.’
21. ‘The basic track featured Lennon on acoustic guitar
22. his vocal and a tom-tom (all recorded onto one track)
23. with Harrison playing a tamboura.’
24. ‘The snare drum takes precedence as the piano enters; tom-toms come in when the sax solo begins.’
25. ‘One or more floor tom-toms followed and by 1940 the drum kit had reached its present form
26. though any number of peripheral instruments may be added by the player.’
27. ‘Then the piano comes in
28. plays a little vamp for two bars
29. is then joined by tom-toms for another two bars before the vocals come in.’
30. ‘Each time the teacher beats a tom-tom
31. a picture of a different animal is shown.’
32. ‘Suddenly he kneels down
33. places the remaining snare
34. cymbal
35. and tom-tom on the floor in a cluster
36. and begins to play his ‘broken’ drums
37. more interested in the set that he's created than in the one we bought.’
38. ‘He started the concert by drumming with his hands on a tom-tom
39. eventually progressing to the entire kit.’
40. ‘They even held a drumming session teaching youngsters how to play the tom-tom and bongos.’
41. ‘We went to a fair-trade import store and bought him a handmade tom-tom made of wood and hide with a lovely wooden drumstick.’
42. ‘She reinforces this hackneyed portrait by evoking African tom-toms.’
43. ‘Indian ceremonies
44. cheers
45. costumes
46. and painted faces may be part of their traditions.’
47. ‘Thai cultural activities are also part of the program
48. and this includes learning musical instruments and tom-toms.’
49. ‘Meanwhile
50. water is blowing in through the tepee's door
51. drenching the tom-toms and blankets.’
52. ‘He struggled to walk onto the stage but played flute
53. tenor and alto sax
54. police whistle
55. African tom-toms and cow-bell with enviable vigour and verve.’