Sometimes an orchestra needs a new French horn or a tympany.

I feel my heart suspended on a string, a slowly beaten tympany.

His feet created an intricate tympany of crisp, clean taps.

She's had recurrent tympany - coming in from the field every night badly blown - and I'd tried about everything.

For performance, Nature has no mercy, and sacrifices the performer to get it done; makes a dropsy or a tympany of him.

This time it did not reverberate across Damia's pained mind like tympany in a small room.

The music came from a small orchestra - delicate tympany, soft strings, and a rich chorus of wind instruments.

The condition guttural pouch tympany affects several breeds, including the Arabian horse.

It was recorded by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five.

Louis Jordan, whose Tympany Five was one of the most popular musical groups of the 1940's and 50's, has not been mentioned very often since then.

Tympany Five was a successful rhythm and blues and jazz dance band founded by Louis Jordan in 1938.

Louis Jordan with his Tympany Five - "All for the Love of Lil"

He went on to become a member of Louis Jordan's bands (both the Orchestra and his Tympany Five).

Bocephus King: Vocals, 6 & 12 string acoustic guitars, electric guitar, percussion, tympany.

Louis Jordan with his Tympany Five - "Wham, Sam!

Strident deep horn tones mixed with plucked strings and a high jangle of bells and muted, irregular tympany.

Alternative spellings with y in place of either or both is-tympani, tympany, or timpany-are occasionally encountered in older English texts.

Brown became inspired to become an entertainer after seeing footage of Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five performing "Caldonia" in a short film.

Toward the end of 1947, he replaced Wild Bill Davis as the pianist for Louis Jordan's Tympany Five.

Beecham stopped the orchestra with a tap of his baton, fixed his eye on the red-faced tympany man and asked 'What is your name'? in icy tones.

"Saturday Night Fish Fry": an R&B hit recorded by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five.

Louis Jordan with his Tympany Five - "Texas and Pacific" (by Jack Wolf Fine)

"Five Guys Named Mo" (Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five)

Beans and Corn Bread is a 1949 jump blues song by Louis Jordan and Tympany Five, released by Decca.

(The word "tympany" is also an old-fashioned colloquial term meaning "swollen, inflated, puffed-up", etymologically related to "timpani", or "kettle drum," but historically separate.)

Tympanites (abdominal)(intestinal)