Meaning & use
tympani
A set of large, bowl-shaped orchestral drums tuned to specific pitches, also spelled timpani.
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The tympani thundered dramatically just before the symphony's final, triumphant chord.
She practiced the tympani part for hours to master its precise rhythms.
A note on using this word
Timpani is the more standard spelling; tympani appears as a variant, especially in older or informal texts.
Words with a similar meaning
timpanikettledrums
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