The drums of thunder were right behind him now.

Whorf described a workplace in which full gasoline drums were stored in one room and empty ones in another ; he said that because of flammable vapor the " empty " drums were more dangerous than those that were full, although workers handled them less carefully to the point that they smoked in the room with " empty " drums, but not in the room with full ones.

Whorf explained that by habitually speaking of the vapor-filled drums as empty and by extension as inert, the workers were oblivious to the risk posed by smoking near the " empty drums ".

Prior to the invention of tension rods drum skins were attached and tuned by rope systems such as that used on the Djembe or pegs and ropes such as that used on Ewe Drums, a system rarely used today, although sometimes seen on regimental marching band snare drums.

During pre-Columbian warfare, Aztec nations were known to have used drums to send signals to the battling warriors.

Early storage devices such as delay lines, punched cards, paper tape, magnetic tape, and magnetic drums were used instead.

The various drums of taiko are of Chinese origin and were brought to Japan between the Yayoi period ( 500 BCE – 300 CE ).

Arnaz, Jr. played the drums and, supported by the SNL band, Desi sang both " Babalu " and another favorite from his dance band days, " Cuban Pete "; the arrangements were similar to the ones used on I Love Lucy.

In military and orchestral music settings, drums and cymbals were traditionally played separately by one or many percussionists.

By World War I drum kits were characterized by very large bold marching bass drums and many percussion items suspended on and around them, and they became a central part of jazz music, specifically ( but not limited to ) dixieland.

Metal consoles were developed to hold Chinese tom-toms, with swing out stands for snare drums and cymbals.

By the 1980s, widely popular drummers like Billy Cobham, Carl Palmer, Nicko McBrain, Phil Collins, Stewart Copeland and perhaps most notably Neil Peart were using large numbers of drums and cymbals and had also begun using electronic drums.

Moving images were produced on revolving drums and disks in the 1830s with independent invention by Simon von Stampfer ( Stroboscope ) in Austria, Joseph Plateau ( Phenakistoscope ) in Belgium and William Horner ( zoetrope ) in Britain.

Shields, sandals and drums were made using the skin, and the strings of musical instruments were from the tendons.

Analog Brothers is an experimental hip-hop crew featuring Ice Oscillator also known as Ice-T ( keyboards, drums, vocals ), Keith Korg also known as Kool Keith ( bass, strings, vocals ), Mark Moog also known as Marc Live ( drums, violyns and vocals ), Silver Synth also known as Black Silver ( synthesizer, lazar bell and vocals ), and Rex Roland also known as Pimp Rex ( keyboards, vocals, production ).

A critical turning point comes when the King decides not to give money to a man who has committed theft but instead to cut off his head and also to carry out this punishment in a particularly cruel and humiliating manner, parading him in public to the sound of drums as he is taken to the execution ground outside the city.

Shell thickness also determines the volume of drums.

In the past drums have been used not only for their musical qualities, but also as a means of communication, especially through signals.

Fife-and-drum corps of Swiss mercenary foot soldiers also used drums.

Taiko are also characterized by a high amount of tension on the drums heads, with a correspondingly high pitch relative to body size.

This style of drum also signifies the family of drums that are made from a single piece of wood.

Along with the martial use of the drums, they also held a strong foundation in the court style music called Gagaku, performed in the castles and shrines across ancient Japan.

Kits using smaller drums in both smaller and larger configurations are also produced for particular uses, such as boutique kits designed to reduce visual impact or space requirements, travelling kits to reduce luggage volume, and junior kits for very young players.

Smaller drums also tend to be quieter, again suiting smaller venues, and many of these kits extend this with easily fitted extra muffling to the point of allowing quiet or even silent practice in a hotel room or bedroom.

While most frequently used with electric or electronic instruments, effects can also be used with acoustic instruments, drums and vocals.

Zorn later formed the Painkiller project with ambient dub producer Bill Laswell on bass guitar and Mick Harris on drums, which also collaborated with Justin Broadrick on some work.

The Berzerker also appropriated the distorted Roland TR-909 kick drums of gabber producers.

Often, several drums, other than timpani drums, can be arranged together to create a drum kit.

The quartet reassembled once again in the summer of 1974, with sidemen Tim Drummond on bass, Russ Kunkel on drums, and Joe Lala on percussion, to embark on the first-ever outdoor stadium tour, arranged by San Francisco impresario Bill Graham, fresh off the large-scale indoor arena tour he had developed for Dylan ’ s return to the spotlight earlier in the year.

He arranged a rehearsal studio in Denmark Street, where a 3-piece band consisting of Hynde, Mal Hart on bass ( he had played with Hynde and Steve Strange in The Moors Murderers ), and Phil Taylor of Motörhead on drums played a selection of Hynde's original songs.

Months later, Keane arranged the formation of the Randy Fuller Four in an attempt to capitalize on the previous success of the Bobby Fuller Four, complete with Randy Fuller on bass, and rhythm guitar, DeWayne Quirico returning on drums, and Mike Ciccarelli and Howard Steele ( other former El Paso musicians ) on lead guitar and bass, respectively.

In this type, the water tubes are arranged inside a furnace in a number of possible configurations: often the water tubes connect large drums, the lower ones containing water and the upper ones, steam and water ; in other cases, such as a monotube boiler, water is circulated by a pump through a succession of coils.

The score for the ident featured brass, drums and vibraphone in a twelve beat fanfare for the station, by Jack Parnell and arranged by Wally Stott.

While a teenager, he sang, arranged, and played drums in a band led by Chico Marx of the Marx Brothers.

The song was arranged in the studio with mandolin, electric bass, and drums.

The bombe drums were arranged with the top one of the three simulating the left-hand rotor of the Enigma scrambler, the middle one the middle rotor, and the bottom one the right-hand rotor.

Brian took up bass, Dennis the drums and Mike would be the frontman, while they all would harmonize vocals arranged by Brian.

A full-size set of tenors consists of 10, 12, 13, and toms arranged in an arc, often with an additional one or two smaller ( 6 or 8-inch ) toms called " gock ", " spook ", " shot ", or " spock " drums inside of the arc.

In Licence to Kill, the Bond theme was arranged by Michael Kamen using rock drums to symbolize a harder and more violent Bond.

The album registered with listeners for its mix of jazz and electropop, with a blend of real horns, synths ( arranged subtly, to sound like strings ), drums, and xylophones, scored by producer / arranger Richard Niles.

Whitfield arranged and recorded the non-orchestral elements of the instrumental with Motown's studio band, The Funk Brothers, who for this recording included Eddie " Chank " Willis on guitar, Jack Ashford on marimba, Jack Brokensha on timpani, Andrew Smith on drums, and Bob Babbitt on bass.

At that period, porches, pilasters, vaults and drums were arranged to create a vertical thrust, to make the church seem taller than it was.

Clarity is a song by John Mayer, sparsely arranged with piano and drums provided, in part, by The Roots drummer Questlove.

Chris Karan was on drums and Tony Hatch and Johnny Harris arranged the orchestral tracks.

Dusty Springfield recorded " I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself " in a session at Olympic Studios in Westminster with production credited to Philips Records owner Johnny Franz-although Springfield later stated her solo Philips tracks were self-produced-and arranged by Ivor Raymonde who conducted his orchestra ; personnel on the session included Big Jim Sullivan on guitar and Bobby Graham on drums.