Instrumentation:

• Piccolo flute
• Flute
• Oboe
• English horn
• Clarinet in Eb
• Bass Clarinet in Bb
• Bassoon
• Contrabassoon
• Trumpet in Bb
• Tenor-bass trombone
• Percussion:
• 3 wood drums (woodblocks and/or temple blocks with different pitch)
• Steel bar instrument (e.g. celeste, vibraphone and/or synthesizer with comparable sound)
• Cymbals
• 2 bass drums
• Piano (two pianos in case of the 17tone acoustic version) or
• piano, two electronic keyboards and synthesizer (in case of the 17tone electronic version).
• Violin I (+ police whistle)
• Violin II (+ police whistle)
• Viola (+ police whistle)
• Violoncello (+ police whistle)

The instrumentation is flexible to a certain degree: English horn, trumpet and/or trombone may be replaced by French horns; the contrabassoon by contrabass tuba or double bass.