kettle drummer

The kettle drummers, with their white bearskins, wore a white plume.

Initially, this was because the Czar of Russia presented the kettle drummers with the white bearskins.

His sound is one of the most recognizable and unusual in jazz - light and airy, yet as visceral as the kettle drummers in Times Square.

While the full dress of the rest of regiment required the wearing of a black bearskin shako, the kettle drummers wore white bearskins.

Each banner had one "rotmistrz" kopia that was larger than the other lances of each banner, and included trumpeters, and musicians (kettle drummers, more trumpeters etc.).

He served as the kettle drummer in the Life Guard Hussars of Potsdam (1907-18) and later the 4th Cavalry Regiment of the Reichswehr, also at Potsdam.

In the days of the Empire, British Catholic soldiers, armed with rifles, would parade to church, led by a Drum Major wielding his baton, with two bagpipers and two or four kettle drummers.

There were complete marching bands of SA, SS and RAD musicians; also a complete band of standing (non-marching) SA musicians that included a kesselpauker (kettle drummer).