Examples of timpanist

• 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.