Principal timpanist Shannon Wood will rattle the rafters with "Raise the Roof," a concerto for kettle drums and orchestra ... to open its Max M. Fisher Music Center in 2003.

And there is, of all things, a Cleveland school of kettle drum players. One of the best ... struggling to build an audience for orchestral music. The Cleveland school had its start with Cloyd ...

And in the Mughal Empire, kettle drums were placed on the camel back ... C.R. Day in his book, The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan, mentions that Nagara, sometimes ...

while whoever arranged the percussion came up with a smart way of working in some kettle drums that give the fill ins a delicious level of oomph. The instrumentation is actually pretty rudimentary ...

a form of Surinamese Creole folk music that originated in 1863 after the abolition of slavery. It’s layered with all types of local percussion, including the skratjie, which is a large kettle ...