Pro-Mark set a record at this year\'s PASIC, held November 3-5 in Columbus, Ohio: the comany was represented, in either performance or clinic, by 24 artists. On top of that, Pro-Mark introduced 37 new mallets and drum sticks, including a 17-model line which is designed by Daniel Fyffe, the multiple-award-winning Franklin Central High School band director. Daniel is also currently serving on the Winter Guard International Percussion Advisory Board.\"We spent months working with Dan Fyffe and his students before settling on these designs. These mallets are incredibly versatile, and will produce the wide range of sounds that are generally required in both high school and college music programs. We also chose a very contemporary range of colors to differentiate the sound each mallets produces. In short, this line contains a mallet to produce virtually whatever sound the music calls for.\"
Two additional keyboard mallet lines, The Sonority Series and The Expressive Series, were also introduced. The Sonority Series is designed primarily for outdoor use, while the Expressive Series features a unique wrapping technique that produces a multi-tonal sound depending on how the bar is struck.
