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Kris
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I will be purchasing a 5.0 marimba very soon, and am curious to get some thoughts from everybody on various brands. The four I'm considering are DeMorrow, Malletech, Kori, and Marimba One. I have played on examples of all the brands and have found them all to have different strengths/weaknesses, but all sound good, if not the same.
I read a post from last month from somebody who was just starting the marimba and wanted some mallet advice. I have found that the Inaki Sebastian mallets (distributed by Black Swamp Percussion) to be very nice. They are a little on the light side, but have a good tone without a lot of mallet contact noise. (Any hard mallet on the low end of a rosewood marimba with have some whack) My only complaint with them is that they use wool yarn, which is why they sound really nice, but they're not the most durable mallet heads. The Innovative Percussion William Moersch and Mark Ford series' also sound really nice, the softer versions roll very nicely, but I don't like the lacquered finish. (I use Pro-Mark stick wrap on the lower 5 inches of my mallets anyway, I'm a Stevens grip player) Malletech mallets are nice too.
OK, so, this post is getting long, but there as been some discussions about Two Mexican Dances and Velocities. David Hall has a CD out, titled "Saudacao", with both of those recorded as well as the Rosauro concerto.
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[3018]Different brands of Marimbas (769 reads)
[3018]Different brands of Marimbas <Kris>