Smaller Mallets were used by plantations and other industries, all of the 0-4-4-0 type.

Mallets used as drumsticks are often used to strike a marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, metallophone, or vibraphone, collectively referred to as mallet percussion.

Mallets are commonly used as children's toys.

Mallets with felt or fleece heads, drum sticks, drum brushes, and other implements are occasionally used to achieve different timbres.

The keys are resonated with either a single open top box or individual resonators for each key. Mallets used to play the marimba can be constructed using a compressed silicone ball ( bouncy ball ) attached to one end of a wooden or synthetic dowell.

Mallets used for metalworking usually have either wood or plastic faces.

Mallets that are too hard will damage the instrument, and mallets that might be appropriate for the upper range could damage the notes in the lower range ( especially on a padouk or rosewood instrument ).

By 1892 110 Mallets were at work, of which 24 were standard gauge ; by 1900 there were nearly 400, of which 218 were on standard gauge or Russian ( 5 ft ) gauge.

The tenorline plays on 6 drum multi-toms using MT1A Tenor Mallets by Vic Firth.

He dies of natural causes two days after the Swindon Mallets win the Superhoop croquet championship and serenades the ferryman on his final journey.

Mallets suitable for the vibraphone are also generally suitable for the marimba.

*" With Mallets Aforethought " from Smithsonian Magazine

When fleets of such locomotives appeared in the middle 1920s the trade press naturally called them " Simple Mallets " — i. e., simple locomotives articulated like Mallets — but eventually the notion spread that this was somehow incorrect.

There are several graduate sport clubs that exist separate to the Central Athletic Club including the Dublin University Museum Players ( cricket ), the Lady Elizabeth Boat Club ( rowing ) and the Mary Lyons Memorial Mallets ( croquet ).

On top of all of this, Thursday still has to help the Swindon Mallets win the 1988 Croquet Superhoop final in order to thwart Kaine and Goliath and avoid the impending end of the world ( as foretold by the aforementioned prophecy ).

`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.

Mike seized a blanket from a pallet in a corner, spread it on the floor and used it to form a bag in which he placed his booty.

Sometimes they just parked at the side of the road and used radar on the trucks as they passed.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

I used to go with Watson to call on the eminent neurologist at his apartment, to sit among the doctor's excellent collection of statues, paintings, and books and drink Oriental coffee while Watson seemed to thaw out and become almost affable.

Actually, two flags were used at the mansion -- a small one on rainy days, and a big one on bright days.

The governor was not used to having his integrity questioned, and he promptly passed the charges on to Woodruff, demanding that Woodruff answer them.

their reading and thinking gave an extension to their normal blushes about appearing ' Jewish ' in subway, bus, racetrack, movie house, any of the public places that used to make the Jew of my generation self-conscious ( heavy thinkers walking across Seventh Avenue without their glasses on, willing to dare the trucks as long as they didn't look like the ikey-kikey caricature of the Yiddish intellectual ).

An agreement allowing convicts to pass on type of locks used on prison doors.

Too often in the past Russian tactics have been used to justify like tactics on our part.

This, of course, was the sort of thing that used to take place in Southern cities -- putting white houses of prostitution with colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly.

He used it very effectively when he wanted to get his squad on the ball.

It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.

The deposit of rupees to the account of the Government of the United States of America in payment for the commodities and for ocean transportation costs financed by the Government of the United States of America ( except excess costs resulting from the requirement that United States flag vessels be used ) shall be made at the rate of exchange for United States dollars generally applicable to import transactions ( excluding imports granted a preferential rate ) in effect on the dates of dollar disbursement by United States banks, or by the Government of the United States of America, as provided in the purchase authorizations.

Laws on boating vary according to the state in which the craft is to be used and according to its horsepower.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

Antoine's held as mandatory a splash of absinthe or Pernod on the parsley or spinach which was used for the underbedding.

Passing through the gate, with towers on either side once used as prisons, I entered a huge square surrounded by buildings, and on the wall to my right found a general plan of the grounds, with explanations in English for each building.

Don't forget -- when you take to the hills or the beach -- that your cooler, which you might have used for wine- or beer-cooling on your terrace or back yard, is indispensable for carrying liquid refreshments.

The bass guitar is used in many styles of music including rock, metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, gospel, blues, and jazz.

Bronze is also used for the windings of steel and nylon strings of various stringed instruments such as the double bass, piano, harpsichord, and the guitar ..

The bass guitar is seldom used to play stand-alone melodies.

Whereas Travis's right hand used his index finger for the melody and thumb for bass notes, Atkins expanded his right hand style to include picking with his first three fingers, with the thumb on bass.

The Alberti bass was used by many later composers, and it became an important element in much keyboard music of the Classical music era.

The frog of the double bass bow is usually made out of ebony, although snakewood and buffalo horn are used by some luthiers.

The double bass bow is strung with either white or black horsehair, or a combination of the two ( known as " salt and pepper "), as opposed to the customary white horsehair used on the bows of other string instruments.

The bass ( or F ) clef is used for most orchestral double bass music.

The lowest note of a double bass is an E < sub > 1 </ sub > ( on standard four-string basses ) at approximately 41 Hz or a B0 ( when five strings are used ) at approximately 31 Hz, within about an octave above the lowest frequency that the average human ear can perceive as a distinctive pitch.

These parts are transpositions of parts written for other bass instruments used before the modern double bass became common and may actually lower the part an octave.

While amplification is rarely used in classical music, in some cases where a bass soloist performs a concerto with a full orchestra, subtle amplification called acoustic enhancement may be used.

The double bass, then often referred to as the Violone used different tunings from region to region.

In the realm of even larger works, Mozart included the double bass in addition to 12 wind instruments for his " Gran Partita " Serenade, K. 361 and Martinů used the double bass in his nonet for wind quintet, violin, viola, cello and double bass.

Because an unamplified upright bass is generally the quietest instrument in a jazz band, many players of the 1920s and 1930s used the slap style, slapping and pulling the strings so that they make a rhythmic " slap " sound against the fingerboard.

While the electric bass guitar was used intermittently in jazz as early as 1951, beginning in the 1970s bassist Bob Cranshaw, playing with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and fusion pioneers Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke began to commonly substitute the bass guitar for the upright bass.

The string bass is the most commonly used bass instrument in bluegrass music and is almost always plucked, though some modern bluegrass bassists have also used a bow.