It's not a string instrument, but Beethoven's Ninth requires these instruments to play a double stop.
It's not a string instrument, but Beethoven's Ninth requires these instruments to play a double stop. Twoof these instruments disrupt the opening theme of the finale of another work by playing F/B and D-flat/Gtritones. That work requires them to change their pitch while playing, features them at opposite ends of theorchestra, and is Carl Nielsen's "Inextinguishable" Symphony. In the original version of Grieg's PianoConcerto, they add to a horn crescendo by playing a namesake "roll." In another solo, these instrumentsplay two notes over and over to represent hunters in Peter and the Wolf. For 10 points, identify thispercussion instrument also known as the kettledrum.
It's not a string instrument, but Beethoven's Ninth requires these instruments to play a double stop.
timpani [accept singular timpano; accept kettledrums before it is read]