Okay i need an opinion.. i am known for breaking mallets while playing (and yes i do play with good technique too) but also everyone else in the pit to break mallets.. and i usually buy them.. really expensive ones too. Should i just go and buy cheap ones? or what? does anyone have any suggestions coz i can't keep losin' money! and also i tried the whol everyone pitches in thing. i get like 2 dollars from one person and everyone else "always forgets"... so yeah.

Why should u be the one to go out and buy no ones? If they break while using them for a school related activity, the fee should fall into the hands of the director, not the participants.

The BD doesn't like wasting money.. coz he goes out and buys all expensive ones too and we end up breaking them... I actually am one of the few to play with technique.. they break during loud parts.. but i always have superglue and electric tape with me... so i try to fix them so they are usable again... but still he won't by anymore.. its mostly marching season though i guess everyone gets over excited or nervous.. which i am neither for competitions.. but oh well.. i just need to figure out whether its worth me going out and buying good expensive mallets.. or cheapo if you break them i don't care mallets

make them buy their own, or they dont play, what our snare line and tenor line does. our basses buy crappy mallets when they do it, so they get one pair at the beginning of the year (plus any left over from the previous year for practice mallets) and pit buys their own mallets i believe

Well, if they keep breaking no matter wut (there's gotta be some reason they keep breaking...), then save the good ones for competitions. Use the super glue and duct tape to keep those ones usable for rehearsal, then use the new ones for the shows that matter.

I tried that last year but my section leader was to pig headed to listen to me! Argh.. she said no our bd bought these new ones for a reason and that reason is for us to use them! and than she breaks about all of them! Its all in the technique! argh... at least usually i know our suspended cymbal mallets the tops always fly off but they are in really bad shape.

I say have everyone buy there own mallets too... Then they can all break there own mallets and not need to deal with it. Now for the BD not paying for the mallets he deserves to be smacked, mine isn't even that bad.

We've never actually broken our mallets befor, I don't think the xylo ones we have can break they're like solid plastic and they sound like crap, that's why I have my own for xylos.

ha.. we call those solid plastic kind "fisherprice mallets" lol anywayz.. we had a pair of those... but i kinda smashed them apart on the break drum! they couldn't handle it! but hey the were cheap music store quality!

anywayz.. no one will buy their own than our BD will get on my case next year if i'm SL for us not having anything to play with.. so i'm stuck..
Last year i bought 3 pairs of mallets... only one survived.. but thats coz they were only used by me! i still want my eight ball and cue ball mallets replaced. LoL but they are going to be after my SL grad party when she has money coz thats her passing down gift to me! haha!

alright well if the mallets are breaking to the point were you are running out of them and not having any that is a problem. try answerin a few of these:

1) What mallets are you using? Brand/Model/Shaft-Type/Intended Application/head-Type
2) How did the mallet break? Where? In the shaft (split along the shaft, or a clean break? and at what part top bottom etc), head (craking or breaking into pieces) etc?
3) What/How was the mallet being used for at the time of breakage? On what, what was the "scenario"?

include any other info you can provide and i can probably help you in the breakage dept.

honestly.. i know last year i bought american drums cannon ball, 8 ball and cue ball mallets.. which weren't intended to be used because i thought they were pretty. (i'm dumb i know)


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That shows them.. and the white ones just dented horribly but they were used improperly.. miss section leader used it for warm ups and frickin' pounded the p*ss outta it and it just smashed in.. the 8 balls broke on the stick about 2 or 3 inches below the ball coz it hit the edge of the bars while being played by miss section leader again.) and also one of the tops split in half too.. when being played loudly. the cannon balls are still good just a few knicks in it... so yeah.