We went on a day trip to Thorn, Holland and visited the Adams Percussion factory. We got a full tour of their facilities and it was rather incredible. We saw and learned how all the instruments were made!!! This included watching a sheet of copper be pressed into a timpani bowl, seeing marimba bars hand tuned, watching resonators get welded, and saw a machine wrap a marimba mallet in 30 seconds! Its amazing to see how all the raw material becomes an Adams instrument! They make about 10,000 instruments a year! At the factory, they also have a showroom/drum and percussion shop. This shop is one of the largest in all of europe- it was fun to see and explore the hundreds of drum sets, timpani, marimbas, and everything else all in one place. The president and owner of the company, Frans Swinkles, gave us our whole tour of the factory. He picked us up from the train station and bought us all lunch at a fantastic pancake restaurant in Thorn- he's extremely nice, and taught us so much answering all of questions about the instruments and factory.
Here's some photos from our completely enlightening trip to the factory!
Frans, thank you so much!!!!
TIMPANI!!! :D 
Gigantic timpani mallets in showroom
Pancakes!!!
Showroom!
More Showroom!
CIRCLE OF TIMPANI IN SHOWROOM!
Drumworld!!
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