Description

Vic Firth Corpsmaster Keyboard/Mason Soft Marimba

This series of mallets is designed to get the maximum sound and projection from the instrument, use a mallet that creates a good, characteristic sound on the instrument (in its optimum range) and play it strongly.

Vic Firth Brian Mason Signature Keyboard Mallets Brian’s Objectives:

1. To provide a series of keyboard mallets that maximizes the resonant output of any keyboard in any given register. The projection of keyboard sound requires fundamental resonance of the bar; the stroke style and the mallet together allow or disallow this resonance.
2. To provide an attractive/performance enhancing mallet that gives the performer a more ‘weighted’ stroke (increasing resonance) with an eye-catching look that makes the player’s involvement more readable. Comfort of grip and weight are essential, keeping in mind that the weight of the mallet must not be excessive.
3. To create a series of mallets that is designed specifically for producing the most/best characteristic sound in a particular range on a particular instrument, while having the flexibility to ‘crossover’ for use on other keyboard instruments -allowing the player/instructor/writer more creativity in the production of tonal colours.

Code:

• VF-M81