Michèle's Mallets

Whenever I travel, handbell people ask me about my mallets. You see, I don't just use "handbell mallets" because, as a soloist, "handbell mallets" don't meet all my needs. They simply don't cover a wide enough range - and I don't have time to change mallets for one or two notes within a phrase (even if I wanted to). I need to find mallets that cover a wider range while still sounding good.

I have taken my bells to percussion stores and tried out various mallets.

I now have a collection of mallets that includes not only "handbell mallets", but also mallets made for vibraphone, marimba, and even timpani.

I uploaded pics of them to Flickr and have embedded thumbnails below. Click on any of them to view comments and other details.

(The pics also appear in the slideshow in the right-hand nav panel of this blog, along with the rest of my Flickr photos.)