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Didn't realize this existed.... From one of the greatest ever to play the instrument.
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...and I resent you exposing our business model!
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Nope, Concertmaster is.
They are probably generally the best paid in the percussion section, but I doubt the whole orchestra. The concertmaster will almost certainly make more, at the least. Sometimes multiple players will rotate the timpani duties, sometimes not.
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It may be true for at least one timpanist who played in the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra at age 18 named Butch Trucks. A few years later he became a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, where he continued to play the timpani (you can hear it booming away on some of their recorded tracks), as well as a more standard rock 'n' roll drum set. Eventually, he was pretty highly paid. ;)
Ed.: I heard Mr. Trucks speak at a book signing event. He was very intelligent and entertaining, and one of his comments was, no matter how poorly one is playing the drums on any given night, one can finish with a dramatic timpani flourish and save the performance.
Edits: 03/12/15
Concertmasters are traditionally the highest paid. Their pay is negotiable, and can exceed $250K....
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