No orchestra takes the first as fast as the marked 100; timpanists couldn't buy insurance for brachial failure from the prescribed flailing.
Here the timpanist supplies the work's anarchic element.
Five players (including the timpanist) are required.
He spent 25 years in the orchestra, the first eight as a member of the percussion section, and the remaining 17 as principal timpanist.
In addition to a pedal, high-end instruments have a hand-operated fine tuner, which allows the timpanist to make minute pitch adjustments.
In that episode, she was also the timpanist for the school's orchestra.
He began a 27-year stint as principal timpanist after his father's death in 1952.
When a female timpanist starts her part, he looks enviously at her and mutters every time he looks back at her.