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A written instruction naming the beater to use.
Also known as: Beater indication, Stick change marking
A mallet indication is a written instruction above the staff naming which beater a percussionist should use — soft, hard, wooden, felt or a specific make.
Instructs which beater the player should use for the passage that follows.
Contexts: Music
Changes the sound as decisively as a change of instrument would, which is why it is written above the staff rather than buried in a performance note.
Contexts: Music
A line of printed letters above the staff naming the beater, sometimes with a small drawing of the mallet head.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.