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• n  a person who plays the kettledrums

• His gestures were incisive, particularly in the extreme loud and soft passages; obviously he had learned his scores by heartno timpanist could miss his cannonball cues.
• Stocky, energetic Saul Goodman, 46, timpanist (kettledrummer) and head of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's percussion section, got a rare chance to do both last week in .
• A musical prodigy who took up drumming at the age of twelve, he became timpanist with the Kyoto and Osaka orchestras two years later, studying ballet on the side.

• tympanist

News & Articles

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• BSO announces new timpanist, four other orchestra appointments
  Beginning in September, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will welcome James Wyman as principal timpanist, succeeding the late Dennis Kain.        
  July 1, 2013 - Baltimore Sun
• Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Announces Several New Orchestra Appointments
  James Wyman succeeds the late Dennis Kain as Principal Timpanist; Rebekah Newman appointed Fourth Chair Viola; Nathaniel Hepler appointed Second Trumpet; Lisa Bergman appointed Second Horn; BSO Violist Karin Brown wins internal audition as Assistant Principal Viola. (PRWeb June 29, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10878778.htm
  June 29, 2013 - PRWeb