Percussion hire · Ireland
Concert percussion hire, ready for your next gig.
Marimbas, vibraphones, timpani, tuned gongs, kits and effects from percussionist Alex Petcu’s own collection. For orchestras, ensembles, theatre pits, studios and festivals.
- Adams marimbas, vibes & timpani
- Tuned gongs & tam-tams
- Effects & the unusual
How it works
Three steps to a quote
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Pick your instruments
Add anything you need from the list below to your quote list. Not sure exactly what? Just add notes.
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Send your dates
Tell us when and where: hire dates, venue, and whether you’d like delivery or to collect.
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Get availability & a price
Alex checks the diary and comes back to you by email with availability and a quote.
Instrument list
Everything available to hire
Open a section and tap + to add. For sets like gongs, timpani and kits you can pick just the pitches or drums you need. Can’t see something? Ask in your request.
Keyboards
Marimbas, vibraphones, xylophone, glockenspiels, crotales and steel pans.
- Marimba
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
- Glockenspiel
- Crotales
- Steel pan
Bells & tuned metals
Chimes, bells, tuned gongs and bowls, by the note or the set.
- Tubular bells
- Almglocken
- Bell plates
- Tuned gongs
- Tuned aluminium pipes
- Tuned wooden slats
- Tuned tiles
- Handbells
- Desk bells
- Singing bowls
- Crystal bowls
Timpani & drums
Timpani, concert bass drums, taiko, snares, toms and kits.
- Timpani
- Concert bass drum
- Taiko drum
- Snare drum
- Drum kit
- Rototoms
- Octobans
- Rope-tensioned drum
Hand & frame drums
Latin, Middle Eastern, African and frame drums, with stands.
- Congas
- Bongos
- Djembe
- Darabuka
- Tombak
- Talking drum
- Bodhrán
- Daf
- Frame drum
Gongs & tam-tams
Big washes and pitched gongs. Tuned Thai and Vietnamese gongs are under Bells & tuned metals.
- Tam-tam
- Chau gong
- Wind gong
- Opera gong
- Small flat gong
Cymbals
Suspended, clash, hi-hats, chinas, splashes and effects.
- Suspended cymbal
- Clash cymbals (piatti)
- Hi-hats
- China cymbal
- Splash cymbal
- Effects cymbals
- Finger cymbals
Auxiliary & hand percussion
Trap-table staples: triangles, tambourines, blocks, shakers and bells.
- Triangle
- Tambourine
- Woodblock
- Temple blocks
- Jam block
- Log drum
- Other blocks
- Castanets
- Claves
- Guiro
- Cabasa
- Shakers & maracas
- Cowbell
- Sleigh bells
- Bell tree
- Mark tree / bar chimes
- Other chimes
- Indian bells
Sound effects
The orchestral effects box, from thunder sheets to slide whistles.
- Thunder sheet
- Wind machine
- Rainstick
- Ocean drum
- Spring drum
- Lion’s roar
- Waterphone
- Whip / slapstick
- Ratchet
- Vibraslap
- Flexatone
- Slide whistle
- Waldteufel
- Wind wand
Found percussion
Junk percussion for the stranger scores.
- Brake drum
- Beer keg
- Spring coil
- Metal pipe
- Wooden box & plank
Hardware
Trap tables, stands and the things that make a set-up work.
- Trap table
- Stands
- Acoustic foam
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Check availability
Send your list and dates. Nothing is booked until Alex confirms with you by email.
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Alex will be in touch by email with availability and a quote. A copy of your list is below for reference.
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Set up and on stage
About
Instruments kept by a working percussionist
APC Percussion Hire is run by Alex Petcu, an Irish percussionist and composer who performs as a soloist, with Crash Ensemble and with orchestras and theatres across Ireland.
Everything on this list comes from Alex’s own collection and gets played on real gigs, from the five-octave Adams Alpha marimba to the thunder sheets and brake drums. They’re kept in the best of nick and set up the way a player would want them.