I have been playing the steel pan (steel drum) for 13 years, and I've never come across a more perfectly designed pair of playing sticks. I'm accustomed to the standard wood sticks you get, but the response on these is amazing! The black latex used on these sticks attacks each note very precisely and I don't have to beat the instrument to get the sound I want, especially on the high notes. As long as these are being made, I will always buy them.

These mallets are shoddy. Usually the tip of the mallet will be a rubber ball with a small hole, and usually friction alone is enough to hold it on, sometimes there is glue. These mallet tips have holes as big as the sticks they are glued to, and there is nowhere near enough glue. Im a gigging tenor bass player, and after two songs one of the tips went flying...avoid these sticks at all costs, there are other options out there that are far superior.