Thanks Daniel, that's all very helpful.
I'm calling for soft mallets, and the four-mallet xylo parts I have
in mind are all double tremolos.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 26 Nov 2006, at 4:04 PM, Daniel Wolf wrote:
Darcy James Argue wrote:
Carl,
What I was wondering was more along the lines of "are there any
xylophone-specific issues that make a four-mallet technique less
practical on xylo. than on other mallet instruments, like
vibraphone or marimba"?
With regard to playing technique, aside from generally using harder
mallets and a faster attack and little if no use of dampening
sustained tones, there is no difference. However, the xylophone
has a much shorter ringtime and the sound at the point of the
attack is brighter, bringing out the non-harmonic partials. It is
then be a matter of taste to decide whether that timbre is as
suitable as that of a marimba or vibraphone (in which harmonic
spectra are better sustained by their quarter-wave-length
resonators) to playing more than a single melodic line, let alone a
four-part texture.
Daniel Wolf
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