About TIMPANI

History

The existence of Cambridge University Musical Society's instrument collection is mostly due Tim Lewers, the Instrument Manager from 1996-2003. Tim did a wonderful job and turned the instrument hire side of CUMS around; it is now both economically viable, and the main Instrument Hire Service in Cambridge and East Anglia. His successor, Richard Neill took over at the start of 2004, and being a programmer, wrote TIMPANI (which stands recursively for 'TIMPANI: Instrument Management Planning And Notification Infrastructure'). The logo was designed by Claire Pike. Jacob Head became Instrument Manager in February 2006. Sam Kemp has been responsible for TIMPANI since 2008.

Our Hirers

CUMS has hired instruments to over 150 different organisations. Recent hiring members have included:

Professional and Semi-Professional Groups

The Bach Choir

The Britton Sinfonia

The Cambridge Corn Exchange

The Cambridge Philharmonic

The Cambridge Sinfonietta

Local Schools and Charities

The Perse School

Hill's Road Sixth-Form College

The Purcell School

The Cambridge Salvation Army

Cambridge Youth Music

Cambridgshire Holiday Orchestra Association

Cambridge University Groups

Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra

Cambridge University Music Club and Chamber Orchestra

Fitz Swing

Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra

Cambridge College Choirs and Music Societies

Gonville and Cauis

Jesus

King's

Peterhouse

Queens

Trinity

If you have any comments, suggestions, or bug reports, please get in contact.

Technical

We'd like to express our gratitude to the Cambridge Computer Laboratory and to the SRCF for hosting.

Thanks are due to the many developers, including Richard Neill, former Instrument Manager on whose freely shared work we rely.

TIMPANI is Free Software, and is released under the terms of the Affero GPL (similar to the GNU GPL). Please read the License and the Authors page. Then, you may download it from the project homepage or the exact code which is running on this server. Richard Neill hopes that you enjoy it, and asks that you send him any patches you write.

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