Cambridge University Musical Society Introduction: such as timpani and side-drums, to rarities such as Crotales and Lion Roars and even The CUMS instrument hire service is the specialist equipment such as the American in largest provider of orchestra percussion in Paris Taxi Horns and the Mahler 6 Hammer, the the East of England. Built over a number of CUMS Hire Service should be able to provide years, it combines a large amount of specialist instruments for your every need. equipment with newly-purchased instruments from top-of-the-range manufacturers such as 4. Easy Collection Premier, Grover, Adams and Selmer. Instruments can be collected from the West Founded: Peterhouse, 1843 Road Concert hall at any time the building is Why use the CUMS Instrument Hire Service? open. This is often from 8AM until 11PM every Instrument Hire Service day. As long as you intend to collect when the 1. Online Booking building is open, there is no need to phone Bookings are made online, on the “TIMPANI” ahead or specify an exact time for return. Information for Orchestras website: http://timpani.cums.org.uk/. The Ample free parking is available immediately in system automatically checks stock availability front of the building, speeding up loading and and immediately e-mails out confirmation and unloading times. an invoice. It is also possible to browse pictures of our instruments so you know exactly what Any Questions? you will be hiring. This cuts out all the fuss and uncertainty usually associated with hiring For further information, please contact the instruments and gives you immediate access to Instrument Manager: all the information you need. By e-mail: [email protected] 2. Low Prices By phone: 07746500410 As the Hire Service is run by a not-for-profit By writing: musical society, it can offer low prices and Jacob Head generous discounts on its Hire Service. CUMS Instrument Manager, Multiple-day bookings are amongst the C/O The Faculty of Music, cheapest available, for example, a week’s West Road, booking costs only 2.5 times the daily rate. Cambridge, Registered charities will also be pleased to CB3 9DP know that we offer them a 50% discount on all bookings, in addition to any discounts for hiring instruments for more than one day. http://timpani.cums.org.uk/ 3. Large Selection The CUMS Hire Service has one of the largest selections of instruments currently available for hire. From regular orchestral percussion, Sample Prices Timpani Samba:

Please note that the following list is only a Premier Elite (22.5’’-32’’) £26 Ganza £2 small selection of the instruments available. Premier Pro Symp. (22.5’’-32’’) £24 Guiro £4 For a full details of over 250 different Adams Series/Mark 1 (25’’-28’’) £22 Pandeiro £6 instruments see the website: http:// Fibreglass Tap Tune (25’’-28’’) £16 Repinique £10 timpani.cums.org.uk/ Surdo £16 Drums Time Multiplier Discounts: Bells Bass Drums (32’’-36’’) £24-£35 The following prices are for a single day’s hire. Bongos £6-£16 Bass Bells (Individuals/Sets) £10/£60 For longer periods multiply the daily rate by Concert Toms (Set of 8) £20 Bell/Mark Trees de£16-£24 one of the following: Congas £24 Bell Sheets £30 Drum Kit £40 Small Church/Hand Bells £2-4 Length of time Multiplier Roto-Toms £10 Tubular Bells £40 1 night x1 Side-Drums £10-£30 2 nights x1.25 Surdos £16 Miscellaneous (many more available- see 3 nights x1.5 4 nights x1.75 Tambourines £2-£20 website) 5 nights x2 Tenor, Field and Long Drums £10-£28 6 nights x2.25 Timbales £16 Air-Raid Siren £20 7 nights x2.5 Tuned Car Horns £10 8 - 12 nights x3 Cymbals, Tam-tams and Gongs Cowbells £2 13 - 14 nights x4 2 - 3 weeks x5 Klaxon £12 3 - 4 weeks x6 Antique Cymbals £6 Large Hammer (for Mahler 6) £10 4 - 5 weeks x7 Chinese Cymbals £10 Small Hand Percussion £2-6 5 - 7 weeks x8 Clash Cymbals (18’’-24’’) £10-£20 Thunder Sheet £20 7 - 9 weeks x9 Crotales (per octave) £22 Washboard £4 9 - 12 weeks x10 Special Effects (Splash, Sizzle etc.)£10 Wind Machine £20 Other Discounts Suspended Cymbals (18’’-20’’) £8-£10 Wood/Temple Blocks £2-£25 Tam-tams (24’’-40’’) £20-£36 Cambridge University Societies registered with Gongs £20-£30 String and Woodwind Instruments the University’s Junior Proctor and registered musical charities receive a 50% discount on Tuned Alto Flutes £10 the total hire price (i.e. in addition to any time Bass Clarinets £20 muliplier discount). Celesta (5.5 Octaves) £90 Contrabassoons £35 Glockenspiel £16-£35 Cor Angles £10 All requests to hire instruments are subject to terms and Marimba (5 Octaves) £80 Double Basses £10 conditions which are available at http://www.cums.org.uk/ or Vibraphone £40 Eb Clarinets £10 on application to the Instrument Manager.All prices are correct as of February 2006. Xylophones (3-4 Octaves) £25-£50 Herald Trumpets £15 Oboes D’Amore £10