Mike Balter Bamboo Timpani Mallets are made with hand-selected, completely smooth 1/2" wide bamboo shafts. They feel light in the hands, but with a satisfying amount of heft out front. They're quite stiff and rebound off the drums easily.
The heads are crafted from extremely high quality felt, sewn in such a way that there is no exterior seam and therefore no bad sound quality from any position.
The Staccato mallets work well for more rhythmically active, sharper musical phrases where you want to hear all of the quick notes going by.
