Encore TM2
- Rating
- Posted by
- Gary Robinson
- Date Posted
- 01/13/2022
This is a mallet designed expressly for 2-mallet work. Shorter-than-usual shafts-harkening back to an earlier time in mallet playing-aided by the flexibility and responsiveness of rattan, make for fast and light work. The inner ball and and firm, yarn wrapping make for easy, brilliant articulation in the upper octaves of the marimba. My students and I are using pairs of the Encore TM2's when practicing George Hamilton Green xylophone rags on the marimba, making low hands and low mallet heights all the easier. The TM2's can be used for more general melodic playing given relaxed hands and greater attention paid to tone production. (GAR 13 January 2022)