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Malletech/KP3 Concert 5-octave Marimba

Range: 5.0 octaves

Number of Reviews: 3

Average Scores:

Sound and Tone:	7.7
Design and Construction:	8.7
Appearance:	9
Customer Support:	8.3
Overall Rating:	7.7

Reviewer: adm g e-mail: garciaamg@gmail.com Date submitted: January 15, 2007 Purchase Price: $12,000 US

Sound & Tone Rating: 10 Comments: Great sound. Tinny? Forget it. Amazing. Fattest Bass. Most volume. Adjustable resonators. (resonators going out of tune is not the instruments fault, try the weather...). Tuning is ok, bad bars are swappable. Ranges are good.

Design & Construction Rating: 10 Comments: ONE PERSON SETUP/BREAKDOWN. Resonators too heavy? Try getting aluminum.... Height adjustable is the best looking and working system around. No frame noise, ever. (assuming you set it up right) Casters are finally great! Cord is fine. Graduated bars, wide in the bottom. hard to play? big deal, sounds the best. One person transport with awesome soft cases

Appearance Rating: 10 Comments: Simply the best looking one out there....unless you like screws, nuts, bolts, cranks, and pipes as the visible components of your instrument...

Customer Support Rating: 8 Comments: Response was fine, but instrument took longer than the estimate they gave me...I have it now though.

Overall Rating Rating: 10 Comments: I would only spend money on a different brand if this one didn't exist.

Reviewer: Andy e-mail: not publicly available Date submitted: July 20, 2006 Purchase Price: $12,500 (US)

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Reviewer: James Jones e-mail: not publicly available Date submitted: January 24, 2006 Purchase Price: not given Sound & Tone Rating: 3 Comments: Resonates well but has a very thin tone. The low end is very tin sounding. It is a pain to tune each bars resonator and there is often resonators going out of tune. The bars seem to catch the mallet and cause a lot of work for each stroke. I was very disapointed. Design & Construction Rating: 6 Comments: The frame is sturdy but very heavy. The resonators come in six peices all of which are extremely heavy. All rattles are easy to fix and are usually the resonators touching eachother. The resonators are great but the bars are very wide and far apart, which in my opinion gives it the tinny sound. Appearance Rating: 7 Comments: People are always impressed and confused. Customer Support Rating: 7 Comments: Overall Rating Rating: 3 Comments: I am very disapointed and really wish i had bought a marimba one.