Percussion Plus 20 years on.

Visits to our factory are possible by arrangement.

Percussion Plus was born in 1987, stimulated by an opportunity to fill a gap in the market. Growth was immediate and after only 2 years the factory had to move from its original site to the Old Mill in Market Harborough and in July 2010 we moved again nearby to a new purpose-built facility, including factory, office and warehouse where we now occupy and provides us with improved production facilities and more space!

Our production workforce are all cross-trained and adaptable. We have recently recruited new staff with enhanced skills to cope with the increase in Sales and New Product Development. Of our existing staff, they have many years of combined experience in the playing, design and manufacture of tuned and un-tuned percussion instruments. Their combined knowledge enables them to concentrate on the right type of products selecting suitable materials to produce the optimum sounds.

From the initial selection of basic materials through to final tuning, each stage of production highlights the diverse range of skills required. Manufacturing machinery is not always readily available. Certain basic woodworking and metal machining equipment is, but some tasks need special machinery which we design and build in house.

There are no short cuts to good sound and so great care has to be taken to ensure that precision tuning standards are maintained on all our tuned products. Pirate notes and double notes have to be tuned out. The fundamental note and the overtone are both tuned, and the higher notes are stretch tuned like a piano. This standard of tuning is applied to the educational ranges not just the professional instruments.