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On the Web
- Ross Mallet Instruments - Manufacturer of mallet percussion instruments including marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, chimes, bells and marching percussion. Contains inventory, practice room, artists, and information for educators.
- Ross Mallet Instruments, Inc. - Manufacturer of mallet percussion instruments including marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, chimes, bells and marching percussion. Contains inventory, practice room, artists, and information for educators.
- Malletjazz.com - Provides mallet percussion music from James Walker, The Vokes-Walker Duo, and the Mahoney-Walker electronic percussion duo. Includes guest book, online lessons page, links, and tour dates.
- Fall Creek Marimbas - Mallet percussion, bar tuning, and repair Service. Provides information about the K-100 Series, glockenspiels, contact information, and links.
- Vienna Symphonic Library: Vibraphone - History, construction, types of mallets, techniques, and sound production, characteristics, and combinations. [English/German]
- Moors, Don - Jazz vibraphonist and mallet percussionist. Contains biography and music clips.
- The Mallet Shop - Specializes in vintage mallet percussion instruments and timpani.
- Tyson, Blake - Marimba player, and percussionist currently on the faculty at the University of Central Arkansas. Contains information about upcoming performances, calendar, biography, as well as information on new music for marimba, and percussion.
- Vic Firth Artist: Gary Burton - Endorsing artist page from percussion manufacturer with photo, biography and links.
- Coe Percussion - Custom builder of marimbas and xylophones.
Wikipedia Articles
- Pearl Drums - The is a world leader in the manufacturing of percussion equipment, including drum kits, hand drums, drum hardware, bass drum pedals, mallet percussion, and other auxiliary percussion instruments. It also makes flutes, taiko drums and cymbals.
- Xylosynth - The Xylosynth is a MIDI mallet controller invented by Will Wernick of Wernick Musical Instruments based in Leicester in the United Kingdom. Will began the process in the 1980s when he was commissioned by a band called Dream Theater to design a sculptural mallet percussion instrument for a video they were making.
- Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Pierre Moerlen's Gong is a progressive jazz-rock outfit which is very different from the first incarnation of Gong, the psychedelic space-rock act led by Daevid Allen. It is notable for the prominent use of mallet percussion, such as marimba, xylophone, and vibraphone featured in a rock/jazz context, making for a very distinctive and unusual sound that could have been classified as warmer and more melodic than most typical fusion could be.
- Burton grip - The Burton grip is a method of holding two mallets in each hand in order to play a mallet percussion instrument, such as a marimba or a vibraphone, using four mallets at once. It was developed by jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton.
- Pro-Mark - Pro-Mark is an American drumstick, mallet, and percussion product manufacturer located in Houston, Texas. The company was founded in 1957 by Herb Brochstein.