I went to the Music House Museum in Acme Michigan and was shocked by the beautiful percussion instruments that are inside some of these self playing instruments.  Check out this link for the museum:   http://www.musichouse.org/   amazing the size of this back

My good friend and percussionist with the Zurich Opera Orchestra, Dominic Hermann, sent me photos of some of their instruments - the bells are just amazing!  And, notice the Bass Drums - they play them seated in a chair, so they are very low to

I saw this tambourine in the Chicago Art Institute - it is painted on by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec.   He pained this tambourine in 1887 or 1888.   You can get an idea of what the instruments looked like then.   Tambourine Toulouse Lautrec

I was at a Boston Symphony Orchestra concert in November of 2013.   They have a small instrument museum and I saw these lovely percussion instruments in glass cases. small timpani small timpani small timps - possibly for Creation of the

Bill Cahn did a clinic at PASIC and I was enthralled by the instruments he used!   I took these photos so you can check them out. “Old School” Temple blocks Castanet and finger cymbal mounting system Metal Castanets

I recently had to rent 3 tuned gongs for the Vaughan Williams’ 8th Symphony.   (BTW, I rented them from New York Percussion Service, who had super service!) - when the gongs came they had this system for suspension onto a boom stand - it was

I was fortunate to spend a week in Kansas City playing with the orchestra and doing a class at the U of Kansas. Principal Percussionist Chris McLaurin has done an amazing job at amassing some wonderful instruments for the orchestra. Clevelander solid brass shell SD