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William Moersch
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Personally, I find that the choice of grip has little or nothing to do with successful playing. In regard to Marimba Spiritual, I have heard both exceptional and wretched performances, whether they be Stevens, Burton, or traditional grip players. What matters more are the concepts of tone, phrasing, contrast, structure and projection.
Thanks for the compliment, but for the record, I do play with a modified Burton grip, incorporating many of the elements of Stevens: holding the mallets at the very end of the handles, the mallet handles do not touch each other, and the thumb is upward.
I seem to recall Zivkovic also using Burton, but I could be mistaken. Zeltsman definitely uses traditional. Joe Gramley, to name just one, plays the hell out of Marimba Spiritual using Stevens.
WM
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[3269]Re: Marimba Spiritual & Grip (263 reads)
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