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Weighs 6 lbs.
Modular practice system consisting of five individual pads sized to their respective octave on a 5.0 marimba
Playing surfaces is recycled car tire rubber or 1/2” thick soft foam - let us know in the notes which surface you want
Each pad is sold separately and the top three octaves come with detachable C bars to complete a scale
When combined they sit together to make a 5.0 marimba
Can also combine pads 4,5&5 or 4,5,5&5 to make a 3.0 or 4.0 octave xylophone
100% American materials and 100% hand made
A reclaimed, environmentally helpful, green mallet pad
Professional marimba performer and Beetle Artist Matthew Coley wanted to be able to silently and accurately warm up back stage as he waited to perform. Since the mallet pads conception, its potential and demand has grown exponentially. We have since developed it with as many options as possible to provide a practice implement that can assist mallet players on all levels for hundreds of uses. At its core, it is a practice pad for mallet players like a snare pad is for snare drummers. It is also a larger modular system that can be combined into a full sized marimba, making a normally extremely limited and expensive instrument more available to many. We make a long base that can accommodate all five pads on an x-stand as well.
"It is of course very important that you play on a keyboard percussion instrument as much as possible for tone development, pitch understanding, and musicality. However, our approach with the pads is to give players more accessibility to tackling technical, kinetic, and memorization skills and issues. These components of playing can and sometimes should be practiced away from the instrument." - Matthew Coley