Facilities

The Catlett Music Center is home to the OU School of Music. In addition to the outstanding performance, academic, and research facilities outlined here, Catlett features an extensive percussion suite with specially designed rooms for rehearsing, teaching, recording, practicing, and storage. The percussion suite includes 6 practice rooms, 2 large rehearsal spaces, a storage room, an equipment repair room, and 2 offices.

The OU Percussion Studio is proud of offer our students an impressive inventory of instruments for performance, rehearsal, recording, and practice. Our students have access to anything they need for the standard ensemble, chamber, and solo repertoire. Highlights from our inventory include:

• Four sets of professional timpani (and three sets of practice timpani)
• Six 5-octave concert marimbas (and several smaller-range marimbas)
• Five vibraphones
• Four xylophones
• Eight drum sets
• Several sets of orchestra bells, crotales, and chimes
• An array of concert, drum set, and specialty cymbals
• Two full sets of concert toms
• Several professional snare drums
• A variety of accessories, world percussion, and novelty instruments
• A full steel band