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Behzad
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From my previous teachers, there was no real use of graduated mallets. They gave me some instruction for the marimba, but I have worked alot more on my own. I have always just used the same set of mallets for a given piece. I was just wondering, is it "standard practice" to do this? I know that Nancy Zeltsman does this with pretty much everything, and seems very affective.
I know that it makes the low end and the high end come out, but if you are doing like a single line melody or something, you can hear the inconsistencies by one mallet being weighed different than the other. For example, if anyone here is familiar with Thomas' "Merlin", this would be a GREAT opportunity to have heavy mallets on the bottom and harder ones on the top. But when it comes to those octave runs, it might come out as "ee-oo-ee-oo-", due to the mallets not being matched. That is why I am kind of clueless as to what they do.
So, any views about this?
~Behzad
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[3595]graduated mallets. Do you do them? (263 reads)
[3595]graduated mallets. Do you do them? <Behzad>
