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William Moersch
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I am in full agreement with Pedro and I would sumarize as follows: any limitations discussed are those of the player, not of the grip (any grip). Much more valuable would be discussions of music, not technique.
However, re: Nat, I define the primary grips as, 1) Traditional: cross grip, one finger between the mallet handles, with the inside mallet handle on top of outside, 2) Burton: cross grip, one finger between the mallet handles, with the outside mallet handle on top of inside, 3) Stevens, variation of Musser: non-cross grip, with two fingers between the mallet handles, 4) Mainieri, variation of Stone: non-cross grip, with three fingers between the mallet handles. Stout's variation is also in there somewhere (cross, two fingers), but I'm not clear on which mallet is on top of the other.
Re: Rosauro's comments, I felt the same issues to be problematic when I first tried playing solo marimba literature again after becoming a Burton grip vibes player: the "click" and the hand position. Hence, the modifications I made to traditional Burton, which remove the click and allow all the stroke and roll options of Stevens.
To further summarize, the correct response, rather than "It can't be done," is more often, "I can't do it." This realization thereby moves the challenge to the appropriate target.
WM
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