Professional Series
Hills Mallets' Professional Series has been designed to fit my needs performing in the acoustics of the Adelaide Town Hall, Elder Hall and the Adelaide Festival Centre. This has resulted in a range of mallets - broad in their diversity of articulation and tonal colour.
I have sorted the mallets into three groups of different tonal characteristics.
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Dark and Heavy
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Light and Bright
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Warm and Round
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If you are unsure on where to start, try the Professional Selection Special.
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The Jarrah Series can best be described by the composers I am playing when I use them. Mahler, Bruckner, Shostakovich. These are the mallets to use when music is its most dramatic, bombastic, and loud.
The Light Series will snap from your timpani heads with a spark. These cork cores are best used for musical moments that are light and joyful, where volume isn't such a concern. Composers such as Mendelssohn, Rossini, or Bernstein. These are the four sizes and articulation characteristics I look for most often for this task.
The Warm Series makes roundness of tone its primary goal. Brahms, Sibelius and Rachmaninoff. The premium German felt allowing the felt core to speak its bass tone.
Really really hard, and really really bright. This is the key to playing in Adelaide's Elder Hall.
