You asked so we delivered - time to learn how to tune the timpani with LPO Principal Timpani Simon Carrington 🥁 Here he demonstrates a tricky passage from Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, and describes how it all works with the pedals 🌟 | London Philharmonic Orchestra

World record timpani re-tuning - Vienna 1790: At the time (1790) this was the fastest that a composer required timpani to be retuned. This speed was much faster than just a few years before when timpani had hardly been asked to re-tune mid-piece at all. However this record dramatically dropped many times in the 19th Century as timpani evolved quicker tuning mechanisms. | Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment