Kolberg 801 Glockenspiel hammers hornbeam

Article number:	801
Availability:	In stock

Bronze hammer with two striking surfaces of plastic material with different hardness (soft/green; hard/red)

sound
hard / soft
+ volume

hardness sclae
85/60

weight of head
22 g

Ø Striking surface

14.5 mm

• Multifunctional mallet: soft or succinct attack
• Very flexible possibilities of articulation in all dynamics:
  very sonorous and sensitive play in the pp range, big, round sound in the ff range
• Heavy hammer head with very much sound volume

Recommended use

• Very well suited for sonorous play, rich in contrasts and volume in all glockenspiel ranges
• Thick steel bars
• Glockenspiel, box model

 

Material                             Shaft design         Shaft length

hornbeam, lacquered          flat oval                300 mm

Sound

Mallets with elastic rattan shafts provide a very good touch and fine articulation and they develop an optimal sound culture, nearly without disturbing impact noises.

Quality characteristics

We only chose the best raw material very carefully and produce our mallet shafts in multistage operations, so that we can put a mallet of best sound and workmanship quality into the musician's hands. Rattan shafts are hand-sanded and are unique in the marked with regard to production as well as sound characteristics. All shafts are matched in weight, diameter and colour.