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Mallets .. a forethought

OK, this post was prompted by Ed's great version of Black Orpheus, and his thoughts about mallets...

This video was done a while ago, and I don't think I ever posted it on VW. Reason was, that I wasn't that crazy about the playing. It started out as just a personal comparison, to see how much I could feel the difference between mallets if I ran some video. A friend wanted to see it, so I edited a little movie and put it up on YouTube. But I was kind of farting around - wish the time and feel were a little better. Whatever, the subject is actually mallets.

Les Blachut – The show must go on! (part 1)

For the "veterans" of thevibe.net, do you remember Polish born vibist Les Blachut? I have a good memory of a pleasant and funny guy, his six mallets theory (and practice!) and of that fun picture of him holding 8 mallets! Ha! :o)

He recently contacted me through Facebook: what a good surprise! I saw that he is here as member, but too busy to participate (so far)… between his work and his… twin babies! ;o)

Sword of Whispers Study and Performance Page

We've been studying Joe Locke's tune 'Sword of Whispers'. We've all learned a ton from Joe and his tune.

Here's a pretty complete reference of what we've done.

If you put your version, please let me know so I can add it to this page!

Check out the comments to see what we were thinking!

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