Acoustic Percussion was established in 2011 by Richard Winter. Richard’s formal percussion training took place at the Royal Northern College of Music where he was awarded the Gilbert Webster Prize and graduated in 2003 with Distinction in both the Professional Performance Diploma and Master of Music Degree. Since then he has enjoyed a career combining professional orchestral playing with teaching.

Each mallet is carefully designed paper and then computer, before being made into a prototype.

Once a prototype has been fabricated, it is tested in the concert hall to examine its tonal characteristic in context. They only select materials for mallet heads that meet our strict criteria. Only when these tests are complete will the manufacturing process begin.

Quality products start with quality materials and we source only the finest from South East Asia to North America.

The people at Acoustic Percussion lightly sand the birch mallet handles to give a smooth yet untreated finish; this provides a little more grip to the wood. They source quality rattan from South East Asia for our handles and pair it for strength and flexibility. Acoustic Percussion's mallet heads are precision injection moulded ensuring equal weight, shape and density.

After more than a year of development, Acoustic Percussion fabricated their very own computer controlled winding machine. This affords them complete control over a number of issues faced with more traditional hand winding techniques.

Acoustic Percussion are able to control the tension of yarn as it is wound, the angle of the yarn wind (even as it is being wound), the distance between each wind, the shape of the mallet head, and all of this takes approximately 1 minute per mallet.