IP Pius Cheung Hard Marimba Mallets, with their special alpaca-blend yarn and hard rubber core, can give you plenty of volume and articulation to be heard in a large ensemble on the upper range of the marimba.
Despite their hardness, these mallets are still meant to provide the player with the velvety tone that Pius's neo-romantic style of music requires. Because of the weight of the PIUS5 mallets, not much effort is required to get a lot of sound.
The Pius Cheung series marimba mallets all have flexible rattan shafts.
