The big drum (d'r dicke Trum) is one of the essentials of street carnival in Cologne. It provides the steady and reasuring beat for hours and hours on the streets of Cologne.
Suse Hesslenberg said: Du weißt nicht warum? Dann frag ens ene echte kölsche Jeck.....
Walter Hesslenberg said: when "et trömmelche" goes, we get started - each of us - every and every year. Don't know why.