tympanistn.

Brit.

/ˈtɪmpənɪst/, U.S.

/ˈtɪmpənəst/

Forms: Also 1800s tim-.

Etymology: < French tympaniste, Italian timpanista, Latin tympanista, German τυμπανιστής, < τυμπανίζειν tympanize v., or < timpan tympan n. + -ist suffix.

One who beats or plays upon a drum, a drummer. In quot. 1862, one who plays a tympan (tympan n. 1b). Now spec., one who plays upon a kettledrum.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > percussion player > [noun] > drummer > of specific types of drum

taburnistera1340

tabor1362

tabreta1377

tympanister1382

nakerera1400

taborerc1400

taborner14..

kettledrum1542

tympanist1611

kettledrummer1683

tom-tommer1871

trap-drummer1903

Lambegger1938

timpanist1939

pan-man1959

tamboo-bambooist1959

steel drummer1960

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tympaniste, a Timpanist; a player on a Timpan, &c.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Tympanist, a Drumster or Taberer.

1862 in E. O'Curry Anc. Irish (1873) III. xxxi. 236 ‘Why is the Timpan called Timpan Naimh (or saint's Timpan), and yet no saint ever took a Timpan into his hands?’ ‘I do not know’, said the timpanist.

1906 Daily Chron. 22 Sept. 1/3 Solo for Six Timpani and Orchestra... Timpanist—Mr. G. G. Cleather.

1930 Melody Maker Jan. 72/3 All that need trouble the tympanist in regard to the minor chords is [etc.].

1955 L. Feather Encycl. Jazz 195/1 He studied with Saul Goodman, tympanist with the N.Y. Philharmonic.

Derivatives

† tympanister n. [ < Latin tympanistria, < Greek τυμπανίστρια] Obsolete a female player on a drum or tambourine.

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