18/07/2025
on the last few days of this season, we would like to give a shout out to rotary timpani. We have a few sets with that system in stock and we believe they are under-valued.
Especially the ones made by GJ Wunderlich are very nice. They sound great! And with a little experience, one can easily learn to use this system without any drawbacks.
Just before we lost Marinus Komst, he also restored a cool set of rotary timpani. as you can still see on his page. (even in his profile picture)
Adrian Bending - musician and Tom Greenleaves visited the timpani museum in Leipzig and spoke out about the Wunderlich rotary timpani. You can see it in their video on Youtube from 38 min to 41.30 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oxr7kqig5U
We do have 2 of those sets in stock, aswell as 2 other types made by Wunderlich, and some Dutch copies also...
(btw - we also have the Wunderlich berlin pedal timpani, like Tom speaks about on minute 41.30 to 44)
Fun Fact; Bart van Grinsven plays his set of Dutch rotary timpani (copy of Wunderlich) at Phion, for some romantic programs.
As seen on the picture in Het Concertgebouw.
So timpani lover, please use some rotary timpani from time to time!
