you can get nice leather ended tippers... they play softer...(I have said this in earlier threads... but I'll say it again..... a friend of mine got the same effect by cutting the fingertips of some leather ladies gloves stuffing them a little with kapok and glueing them to the ends of a piece of dowelling about the same length as a tipper).

Ideally the tipper should be the same length as the distance between the tip of your little finger and thumb when the hand is extended.

Gypsy I use a jazz drum brush (plastic brush) combined with a shakey egg in one hand.. gives a great jazz/swing sound...

The same friend made a great double ended brush by going to her local art supply store buying the largest paint brushes she could... sawed them in half and glued them together.... different sound again... softer than plastic... you could do the smae with two wooden pastry brushes stuck toether end to end with elastic bands...... (suddenly I'm beginning to feel like a Blue Peter presenter... get down Shep!!)

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alison

slainte

alison