Concert Percussion · Models

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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.

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Grover Projection-Plus Tambourine

Concert percussion · United States

Grover's Projection-Plus tambourines use a stepped shell and hand-hammered jingles, and they are on a very large share of orchestral recordings made since the 1990s.

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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.

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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.

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Studio 49 Orff Xylophone

Concert percussion · Germany

Studio 49's Orff instruments have removable bars so a teacher can leave only the notes of a chosen scale in place, which is the pedagogical idea the Schulwerk is built on.

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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.

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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.

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Adams Chimes

Concert percussion · Netherlands

Adams' chimes are the tubular bells most often seen in European orchestras, with a damper pedal and a frame that can be moved by one player.

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Black Swamp Concert Tambourine

Concert percussion · United States

Black Swamp's tambourines are catalogued by the metal of the jingles — German silver, beryllium copper, chromium, and combinations — because that, more than the shell, determines whether the instrument sits in an orchestral texture or on top of it.

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Kolberg Concert Bass Drum

Concert percussion · Germany

Kolberg's concert bass drums are built to order in a range of diameters with suspension stands that let the shell resonate, and are common in German-speaking orchestras.

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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.

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Remo Roto Tom

Hand percussion

Roto Toms have no shell: the head sits on a threaded frame, and rotating the drum raises or lowers the pitch continuously. That makes them the only drum a player can glissando in performance, which is why they turn up in orchestral scores.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Grover Castanets

Concert percussion · United States

Orchestral castanet writing usually needs a mounted pair a player can roll on, and Grover makes both those and the handheld sets in graded timbers.

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Zildjian A Symphonic

Cymbal · United States

Hand cymbals for orchestral use are a different instrument from a drum-set crash: heavier, matched in pairs, and specified by weight class. The A Symphonic range covers the standard French, Viennese, and Germanic weights.

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Cooperman Rope Tension Field Drum

Hand percussion

Cooperman builds rope-tension field drums to period specification for reenactment, early music, and fife and drum corps — the drum as it was before metal tension rods.

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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.

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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.

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Majestic Concert Bass Drum

Concert percussion · Netherlands

Majestic's concert bass drums hang in a suspension frame rather than resting on legs, so the shell is free to resonate, and are supplied in the diameters standard repertoire calls for.

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Pearl Philharmonic Concert Snare

Concert percussion · Japan

The Philharmonic series covers maple, African mahogany, and brass concert snares with gut, cable, or wire strand options, and is Pearl's contribution to the orchestral catalogue rather than the drum-set one.