21. Schubert wrote it for school chums, and there was no timpanist around to join in. 22. Even when gauges are available, good timpanists will check their intonation by ear before playing. 23. He was also appointed percussionist and timpanist at the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra from 1981 to 1985. 24. Firth has composed etudes for timpani technique that are now part of the standard training for every timpanist . 25. Royal housekeeping accounts from 1526 mention twelve musicians including wind players and a timpanist but no string players. 26. From 1985-1988, Wyre was the principal timpanist for the orchestra of the Canadian Opera Company. 27. But the Cologne timpanist can be truly fearsome, as at : " All liars must be silenced. 28. And he did it, " said Everett Firth, a timpanist retiring this season after 50 years. 29. While in Venezuela as Principal Timpanist of the Caracas Philharmonic, he studied with the Joropo virtuoso Maximo Teppa. 30. Gone were the old ways of timpanists only playing the bass, with a long, walking melodic line.
