List of timpani manufacturers
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Mass producers

  • Adams Musical Instruments
    Adams Musical Instruments
    Adams Musical Instruments is a manufacturer of percussion instruments based in the Netherlands. The company was founded by amateur musician André Adams, who started repairing brass instruments in 1971...

  • Dynasty USA
    Dynasty USA
    Dynasty USA is a manufacturer of marching brass and percussion instruments based in the United States, and is one of the last remaining manufacturers of valved bugles pitched in G. Key consumers are drum and bugle corps, such as Phantom Regiment, Glassmen, and Revolution....

  • Ludwig Drums
  • Majestic Percussion
    Majestic Percussion
    Majestic Holland B.V. is a manufacturer of percussion instruments based in the Netherlands, and is a division of musical instrument manufacturer van der Glas B.V.. Founded in 1921 by Willem Klazes van der Glas, Majestic claims to be the oldest timpani manufacturer in the Netherlands...

  • Premier Percussion
    Premier Percussion
    Premier Percussion Limited is an English manufacturer of drums and percussion instruments.The company was founded in 1922 as the Premier Drum Company by London drummer Albert Della Porta and drum builder George Smith...

  • Yamaha Corporation

Custom builders

Most companies that build custom timpani are associated with an individual builder or timpanist, listed in parentheses.
  • Dresdner Apparatebau (Michael Denenr)
  • American Drum Manufacturing Company
    American Drum Manufacturing Company
    The American Drum Manufacturing Company is a family-owned timpani manufacturer based in Denver, Colorado. Former Denver Symphony Orchestra timpanist Walter Light, who built a custom set of drums for himself, founded the company in 1950 when his colleagues began asking him to build timpani for...

     (Walter Light
    Walter Light
    Walter J. Light was a timpanist, percussionist, and drummaker. At the age of 16, he was appointed to a percussion position in the Denver Symphony Orchestra, joining his father, who was the timpanist...

    )

  • Berlin Classic Timpani (Wolfgang Hardtke)
  • Clevelander Drum Company (Paul Yancich)
  • Lang Percussion (Saul Goodman
    Saul Goodman
    Saul Goodman was a timpanist in the New York Philharmonic orchestra from 1926 to 1972. Saul learned under the instruction of Alfred Friese, whom he succeeded as principal timpanist in the New York Philharmonic...

    )
  • Precision Classic Timpani (Mark Guthrie)
  • Dorfler Klasik Percussion (Christoph Dorfler)
  • Winkelmann
    Winkelmann
    Winkelmann is the surname of:* Christian Herman Winkelmann, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wichita * Colin Winkelmann , professional freestyle BMX rider* Eduard Winkelmann , German historian...

     (Hartmut Winkelmann)
  • LEFIMA - AEHNELT (Ernst Leberecht Fischer)
  • Kolberg - Bergerault (Bernhard Kolberg)
  • Wiener Pauken Werkstatt (Bernd Lanner)

Historical

These companies no longer produce timpani, but their instruments are still widely used.
  • Hinger Touch-Tone Corporation
  • Leedy Drum Company
  • Günther Ringer Company
    (Note: Ringer was purchased by Ludwig, who used the name for their top-of-the-line Berlin-style timpani.)
  • Rogers Drum Company
    Rogers Drums
    The Rogers company was started in 1849 by an Irish immigrant from Dublin named Joseph Rogers. Rogers came to the United States and started crafting drum-heads. His son began making drums in the mid-1930s at a Farmingdale, New Jersey location...

  • Slingerland Drum Company
    Slingerland Drum Company
    -History:The Slingerland Drum Company is a historic drum company that is linked to the rich history of jazz drumming. The company was founded by Henry Heanon "H.H." Slingerland in 1912. Slingerland had won a correspondence school of music in a card game aboard one of the gaming boats that once...

  • Jenco
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