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An eight-piece band plays brass, electric guitar, bongos and timbales, filling the room with music as dancers twirl in a dizzying array.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

“Wake of the Flood” also marked a major presence of auxiliary instruments played by guests, including violin, trumpet, saxophone, trombone, harmonica and timbales.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2023

A resident of the luxury apartments down the block complained about the neighborhood’s signature soundtrack, eventually prompting T-Mobile to ask owner Donald Campbell to silence the congas and timbales.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2019

Mixed in with the electronically made music is a track of Carr playing timbales and cymbals, to lighten the robotic feel.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2015

Filets de boeuf en Bellevue, timbales milanaises chaudfroid de gibier.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William