Benjamin Schmidinger HBK 1
Leather mallets for suspended cymbals
Benjamin Schmidinger Signature HBK 1
- Type: leather mallet for suspended cymbals
- Range of use: massive suspended cymbals
- Degree of hardness / sound: medium hard / well-defined
- Material (shaft): oiled hornbeam
- Materials (head): very thick deerskin
- Total length: 35 cm
- Shape and diameter of shaft: conical/ 19 mm -11 mm
- Shape and measurements of head: oval / Ø 42 mm, H: 30 mm
- Weight: each ca. 80 g
- Selling unit: 2 items
- Graded and paired according to weight and pitch
- Hand-made in Salzburg /Austria
Cymbal Mallets
These mallets are made for thick cymbals which require mass to make them vibrate. The instruments used by the Vienna Philharmonic demand this very kind of material.
These two models, precise in impact and with a distinctive sound, could be the first choice when Gustav Mahler indicates "mit Schwammschlägel" [with a spongy mallet].
