Malletech Marimba Mallet LS27Z, Leigh Howard Stevens series, "This mallet functions as an extremely soft as well as an extremely hard mallet. The player will notice a sudden "breaking point" between mezzo forte and forte where the oversized, super-hard core "kicks through" the three outer layers, selected birch handles, matched by weight set of 4, two-tone-mallet, 1 1/8" plastic ball, fluffy white blend yarn