Ron Vaughn Piccolo Block mallets are intended for Ron's Piccolo Wood Blocks and other small blocks. These mallets are offered in Birch shafts, (PBM-1B with Orange band), or Rattan shafts, (PBM-1R with Turquoise band). The PBM-1B's are a specific use mallet, intended for the smallest of Ron's professional Wood Blocks: the W-1, tuned to about a high C sharp, and the W-1.3 tuned to about an A natural. The PBM-1's bring out the best from these small, high-pitched blocks.
Recent Innovations: In 2010 Ron added a brass core to the PBM-1's that bring even more balanced presence of sound to his brilliant, high-pitched blocks. "Matching mallet density to an instrument is always central to achieving the best sound presence the instrument has to offer. Piccolo blocks are less forgiving than most all others when mallets don't match the performance/instrument need. The W-1 and W-1.3 are so small and brilliant, they require ideal mallet surface hardness, mallet head mass, and well matched mallet shaft length, diameter, and weight", says Ron.

Pictured above is the PBM-1R, Rattan shaft.