It physically hurts my ears and the fact that the entire house and anyone walking down the street can hear me play gives me stage fright even though I am just practising.
I got fairly far practising with soft rubber mallets, but I found that I developed an incredibly hard 'touch' with them. If I play naturally with the more usual hard plastic mallets everything comes out fff or louder. If I try to play at a more normal level, I struggle to even hit the bars reliably (especially when anyone else is around). With the soft rubber mallets, I can blast out the trio from Stars and Stripes at full speed; with normal mallets, I struggle to play a scale.
It's incredibly disappointing. Any one got any tips or know of any instruments that are similar but much quieter?
Submitted February 06, 2022 at 07:59PM by theladygraymalkin https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/smaadx/the_glockenspiel_is_my_absolute_favourite/?utm_source=ifttt