page_title: Percussion mallet
hierarchical_section_title: Percussion mallet
caption_attribution_description: English: mallet bag to store mallets and drum sticks. Shows a wide variety of sticks.
context_page_description: A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument in order to produce its sound.
  The term beater is slightly more general; A mallet is normally held in the hand while a beater may be foot or mechanically operated, for example in a bass drum pedal; drum stick is less general still, but still applied to a wide range of beaters. Some mallets, such as a triangle wand, are normally used only with a specific instrument, while others are used on many different instruments.
  Some mallets, such as vibraphone mallets, are normally just called mallets, others have more specialised names including:
  Drum sticks, of many types, some used with a wide variety of instruments.
  Wands used to strike a triangle.
  Rutes, used with many instruments.
  Brushes, used particularly with snare drum but also with many other instruments.
  Tippers used to strike a bodhrán.
  Hammers, also just called mallets or dongers, used with a xylophone.
  Bachi, used with Japanese taiko drums.
context_section_description: A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument in order to produce its sound.
  The term beater is slightly more general; A mallet is normally held in the hand while a beater may be foot or mechanically operated, for example in a bass drum pedal; drum stick is less general still, but still applied to a wide range of beaters. Some mallets, such as a triangle wand, are normally used only with a specific instrument, while others are used on many different instruments.
  Some mallets, such as vibraphone mallets, are normally just called mallets, others have more specialised names including:
  Drum sticks, of many types, some used with a wide variety of instruments,.
  Wands used to strike a triangle.
  Rutes, used with many instruments.
  Brushes, used particularly with snare drum but also with many other instruments.
  Tippers used to strike a bodhrán.
  Hammers, also just called mallets or dongers,  used with a xylophone.
  Bachi, used with Japanese taiko drums.
caption: Mallet bag showing variety of mallets
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA", "Image Make": "OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.", "Image Model": "C180,D435", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "ArcSoft PhotoImpression 6", "Image DateTime": "2008:06:15 17:34:24", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "302", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/30", "EXIF FNumber": "14/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Creative", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "50", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "0000:00:00 00:00:00", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "0000:00:00 00:00:00", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "2", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "3", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash fired, auto mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "61/10", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2592", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1837", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "272", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "0", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Portrait", "EXIF GainControl": "None", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal"}