About TIMPANI

History

The existence of Cambridge University Musical Society's instrument collection is mostly due to 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. Richard Neill took over again in 2024. In October 2024, C.U.M.S. became a part of C.M.P., The Center for Music Performance, Cambridge.

Our Hirers

C.M.P. 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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