Garland is a fine old Maine company, still in the same family as the founders. They make all sorts of bizarre striking instruments from a variety of space age and Flintstone-era materials.

Get a shop tour if you can - in the room where they soak the bundles of water-buffalo hides to make those mallet faces timbeframers favor there is a giant waterbuffalo head on the wall, overseeing the operation, and wearing a New England Patriots cap.