Concert Percussion - Arco

Black Swamp Multisonic Concert Snare

Concert percussion · United States

The Multisonic carries four separate snare units — cable, coil, gut, and steel — each engaged independently, so a player can change the drum's character mid-piece rather than changing drums. It is a fixture in American orchestras.
Zildjian Crotales

Concert percussion · United States

Crotales are small thick tuned discs played with a hard mallet or bowed, sold in chromatic octave sets, and Zildjian's are the ones most orchestral parts assume.
Kolberg Timpani

Timpani · Germany

Kolberg builds pedal timpani in copper with a choice of bowl profile and head, alongside the trolleys and covers a working section needs.
Grover Concert Snare Drum

Concert percussion · United States

Grover's concert snares are built around interchangeable snare units and thin shells, aimed at the same repertoire the Multisonic serves and with a comparable following.
Studio 49 Orff Metallophone

Concert percussion · Germany

The metallophone gives the Orff ensemble its sustained voice, with thick aluminium bars over a resonator box and the same removable-bar system as the wooden instruments.
Majestic Prophonic Concert Snare

Concert percussion · Netherlands

Prophonic concert snares are offered in maple and in a thin metal shell, with cable and gut snare options, and are widely used in European orchestras and conservatories.
Lefima Concert Bass Drum

Concert percussion · Germany

Lefima builds concert and marching bass drums with composite shells that cut a large drum's weight substantially, which matters most when a player has to carry it.
Black Swamp SoundArt Concert Snare

Concert percussion · United States

SoundArt is the Multisonic's simpler sibling: one strand set, a maple or steel shell, and the same bearing edges and hardware, at a price a conservatory can buy in numbers.
Deagan Orchestra Bells

Glockenspiel · United States

Deagan's orchestra bells are still preferred by many players over anything made since, and old sets are maintained and re-cased rather than replaced.
Black Swamp Triangle

Concert percussion · United States

A triangle's pitch spread and sustain come from its bar alloy and cross-section, and Black Swamp sells them as distinct instruments rather than as one accessory.
Yamaha CSM Concert Snare

Concert percussion · Japan

The CSM series is Yamaha's concert snare: a thin maple shell, a choice of strand sets, and the tolerances that make a section of them match each other.
Adams Concert Bass Drum

Concert percussion · Netherlands

Adams builds concert bass drums in the large diameters orchestral repertoire needs, on tilting suspension frames that let the drum be played horizontally or at an angle.

J.C. Deagan

J.C. Deagan built marimbas, vibraphones, orchestra bells, chimes, and tower bells in Chicago from the 1880s, and effectively invented the vibraphone as an instrument with a motor-driven tremolo. Deagan bars still turn up in orchestras and are still preferred by some players over anything made since.
Studio 49

Studio 49 was founded in Munich in 1949 to build the instruments Carl Orff's Schulwerk required — xylophones, metallophones, and glockenspiels with removable bars — and its instruments defined how percussion is taught to children across much of the world.
Black Swamp Percussion

Black Swamp builds concert snare drums, tambourines, triangles, and accessories to orchestral tolerances, with tambourines specified by jingle alloy and snare drums by the number and material of the strand sets. The instruments are standard in American orchestras and conservatories.
Lefima

Lefima has built drums in Bavaria since the nineteenth century and is known for concert and marching bass drums, including carbon-composite shells and hardware designed to keep a large drum's weight off the player.
Kolberg Percussion

Kolberg builds timpani, concert percussion, and the stands and trolleys that a percussion section actually runs on, and is a common sight in German and Austrian orchestras. Much of its catalogue is built to order.
Grover Pro Percussion

Grover Pro makes tambourines, triangles, castanets, and concert snare drums for orchestral players, and its tambourines — specified by jingle metal and shell depth — are among the most recorded. Not to be confused with the guitar tuner maker of a similar name.
Sonor

Founded by Johannes Link in Weissenfels and rebuilt at Bad Berleburg after the war, Sonor is the oldest drum company still making drums. Its reputation rests on dense, thin beech and maple shells and on hardware heavy enough to be a running joke among drummers who move their own gear. The SQ2 system lets a buyer specify shell timber, thickness, and bearing edge drum by drum.
Cooperman

Cooperman builds historically accurate rope-tension field drums and fifes for reenactment and early music, and a widely used line of frame drums and bodhráns. The shop has been in Vermont for three generations.
Remo

Remo Belli's Mylar drumhead, introduced in the late 1950s, ended the era of calfskin and made drums that stayed in tune through weather and travel. The company went on to build world percussion with synthetic shells and heads — djembes, frame drums, and the tunable Roto Toms — and remains the largest drumhead maker in the world.

Percussion Instruments

Instruments sounded by striking, shaking, scraping, or related percussive action.