Hi, I'm Judy pine, an Education Consultant
at West Music. Today I want to talk to you about our Basic Beat Orff Mallets. Actually, we have more than just Orff Mallets, we also have timpani
mallets, temple block mallet,s and then a whole variety of wood mallets for wood
blocks and things like that too. Today we're going to kind of focus on
some of the Basic Beat Mallets from the catalog Let's start off with our glockenspiel
mallets and I have a Sonor Tenor Alto Glockenspiel, so you can hear them as
well we have some of the features of all these mallets are the shaft and then they can hang onto the mallets like they're riding
their bicycle. We will pretend it's summer today. So these are the wooden head
headed mallets Then we also have the rubber headed mallet what's really nice about this it's not a hard piercing rubber a nice mellow sound then as we move to
some of the xylophone mallets you'll notice we go yellow, blue, and red.
This is because the yellow mallets are a soft mallet and if you pinch this head
you can see it has a little give to it for a soft sound and then what's
interesting inside this yarn head is exactly this yellow head.
So, say it a ways
down it starts to fall apart and it's after our 1-year Basic Beat
guarantee, you could just take all the yarn off and inside you have a new
mallet. Then in conjunction we go with blue which is medium hard and then red
that's hard. Now the workhorse of any ensemble is an alto xylophone
and that means these blue yarn mallets are going to be the workhorse upon your
ensemble because these are going to work well for alto or soprano xylophones or
metallapohones because they're going to bring that quality sound out. If you want
to go more gentler, I would use these yellow yarn mallets on your bass
instruments, or and as well as your soprano metallophones because you don't want a hard clanging sound on the metallophones.
Then for those special times that you want the sound to come right out, use the red mallets. first let's use the soft mallets. now go to the yarn it's a little more mellow. Next let's go
to the blue mallets- medium. the blue yarn mallets then let's go to
the red yarn now the thing is the red yarn the red rubber the thing is with
the red rubber if you use these on rosewood you want to be mindful that
your kids are not playing too hard Because on a rosewood bar any
hard mallet, whether it's a hard plastic or a hard rubber could hurt the wood, so
you want to be gentle with it Say it's around sometime around Halloween and you want the sound of bones, I can hear that a lot, couldn't you?
So again soft medium hard. These temple block mallets, green, you may notice the shaft is just a little narrower. The reason is that way these will slip right inside the bar on the Basic Beat Temple Blocks, so we made them specifically for that and then this guy is for the Bass Bars, so the grip is
going to be a little bigger because it's weighted a little bit more and that the
head is a little deeper.
Of course it won't work on the xylophone
because it'll just make the bar jump off but it works really well for a bass bar
so for any mallet or percussion instrument we have one year guarantee
for you so keep that in mind we want to show you the value of other products
that we promote for your elementary classroom!.