Great for louder dynamics
- Rating
- Posted by
- Michael Benedict
- Date Posted
- 01/25/2019
The Salver Mark Sherman mallet is an excellent mallet in terms of size, weight and mallet head size for 2 mallet playing. The problem that I have with the mallet is that is uneven in terms of the attack on the bars in going from soft to loud dynamics. If you roll on a bar from pianissimo to fortissimo you will see what I mean. At a certain point it sounds like you are changing mallets. It goes from a very soft smooth sound to a hard sound very quickly instead of a nice gradual crescendo. Obviously the attack will change with any mallet but this is extreme. So, if you play with a lot of dynamics this may be an issue. This would be a great mallet in a setting where you are playing a mf to ff range constantly. I have been searching for the perfect answer to the Milt Jackson Albright mallets and have yet to find anything comparable.
