Mallet Selection Chart and Excerpts

Orchestral Series Mallet Selection Chart and Excerpts

by Chris Deviney

Model Description Suggested Excerpts

Medium soft attack, excellent for Bartok – “Music for Strings, Percussion, & Celesta
OS-1 ragtime or small chamber (mvt. 3)”
performance on xylophone. Shostakovich – Polka from “Golden Age Ballet”
Full sound with little surface sound. Gershwin – “Porgy and Bess”
OS-2
Hard enough for forte passages. Kabalevsky – “Colas Breugnon Overture”
Ravel – “Mother Goose Suite”
Light, very articulate, and easy to
Messiaen – “Exotic Birds”
maneuver xylophone mallet. Great
OS-3 Kodaly – “Hary Janos Suite”
for quick, delicate or fast, punctuated
Schumann – “Symphony No. 3”
passages.
Gershwin – “American in Paris”
Impressive full forte sound on Bartok – “Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
xylophone as well as glockenspiel. (mvt. 4)”
OS-4
Lighter mass prevents bars from Respighi – “Pines of Rome”
“hopping” than with other mallets. Copland – “Appalachian Spring”
Well-balanced, full-sounding
Dukas – “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
OS-5 glockenspiel mallet without being
Rimsky-Korsakov – “Russian Easter Overture”
heavy.
Very lightweight glockenspiel mallet Debussy – “La Mer”
OS-6
for delicate, subtle passages. Wagner – “Waldweben”
Extremely bright glockenspiel mallet Glazunov – “Violin Concerto”
OS-7
for clear, articulate passages. Mozart – “Magic Flute”
Sounds similar to a wood core but
OS-8 Hindemith - Kammermusic No. 1
with greater durability.
Same sound as OS8 but larger core
with heavier volume; both mallets
OS-9 Stravinsky - Firebird (complete ballet)
won't splinter over time like real
wood.