figured out that if you tap on a stalactite in a cave with a rubber mallet it generates a tone and if you can identify just the right stalactitesjust the right size you can actually create a full tonal spectrum and so he
scoured Luray Caverns looking for pitch perfect stalactites attached rubber mallets to them wired them up with five miles of wire connected them to this four keyboard church organ and startedplaying the world's largest musical instrument he actually recorded an album called musical gems from solid rock and
Around the same time, they were running a whole series on four guys who robbed a jewelry store. Two guys walked into a jewelry store with guns; two guys walk into a jewelry store with mallets . The two guys with guns went in first, and they got everybody on the ground, and everybody that was inside the store got on the ground and kept their heads down. And the two guys with mallet then followed them in.
with mallets . The two guys with guns went in first, and they got everybody on the ground, and everybody that was inside the store got on the ground and kept their heads down. And the two guys with mallet then followed them in. One guy with a gun and one guy with a mallet went to the right. One guy with a gun in one
One guy with a gun and one guy with a mallet went to the right. One guy with a gun in one guy with mallet went to the left. And then proceeded to walk around the jewelry store smashing the cases taking out rings and watches and necklaces. And they got away with about a little over $400,000 worth of jewelry that day. And then one of them yelled let's go, and then all four ran out of the store. One of the people who were on the ground,
Or what's the room doing to this instrument? And what about the mallets we're using? And really for them to be just continually asking, asking, asking these questions and peeling the layers of listening curiosity as it were,
And then you want to just give it a smack. If you have a meat mallet , otherwise known as a meat tenderizer, that thing that's like a hammer for the kitchen? Use that on this.
night i put it in the top rack of my dishwasher so so it stays clean how about this hammer thing it's the mallet and this is pretend this is a piece of steak so we're going to take that piece of steak and you just whack oh it doesn't usually sound that good
So when I hit upon this idea one day while I was paying for child care, my daughter was a year and a half. And I was over at the Malletts Library. And I thought, why don't I do this?
So I started studying with him. And he maybe played tympani and mallets and not rock and roll. But I had nowhere to-- I wanted to become educated.
perception which they could tell that the lights coming in from this window and then totally blind uh and we had all three groups represented in our class now mallette's totally blind and she took pictures of the lawnmowers and the leaf blowers on campus Because she was afraid of them she was afraid of the lawnmowers and leaf blowers on campus because they would uh uh the lawnmowers like these big industrial lawnmowers and
And we'd use our Rolodexes to find the best and brightest to teach. And so we'd have kids learn physics by holding a mallet and breaking it while a guy was on a bed of nails. I mean, what better way to learn physics.
portion size too so sometimes thank you great job here I have your own special Mallet for you no you don't have any spices yet but you going to have a mallet so I can smash the spices right you can can you actually could hey that's a actually really good tip so you didn't know that but if you have spices like like black pepper corn or coriander
or seeds you can put them in a bag with this side and then hit through the bag and then you could do make your own personally smashed this is going to be a signed Mallet this is going to be a signed Mallet great
the two guys with mallet then followed them in. One guy with a gun and one guy with a mallet went to the right. One guy with a gun in one guy with mallet went to the left. And then proceeded to walk around the jewelry store smashing the cases taking out rings and watches and necklaces. And they got away with about
the way through and you make holes in it so we're trying to get it down to a little um about a little less than a half an inch thick and there's different types of mallets so there's this side that's for tenderizing more beef and other you're not going to use that on the chicken side and you'll rip through the bag you have a flat side and there's also the big wood ones that have a a
you could do that let me see look at that and see how much further that uh actually spreads out the portion size too so sometimes thank you great job here I have your own special Mallet for you no you don't have any spices yet but you going to have a mallet so I can smash the spices right you can can you actually could hey
That is, the Sanskrit name of this instrument is called Shata-tantri Veena, which means 100 string lute. So this instrument has over 100 strings and played with these two wooden mallets , which are made of walnut wood. And this is an instrument which has its origins in Afghanistan.
I always laugh. It really was one of those moments when we aired and it was right after it aired that week, where the phone rang. We're going to hit it with a heat gun, and then we're going to smash it with a mallet .
drinking mead by the barrel, wading through rivers, riding around in a chariot pulled by horse-sized goats, and making expeditions into uncharted lands for the sole purpose of wasting as many Giant asses as he could fling his hammer at, which turns out to be a lot. This guy was so good at getting crunked up on fermented honey and using his mallet to hammer people into the ground like meaty tent pegs, that, according to Norse myth thunder was actually the sound of Thor bashing a guy's head into a pulp, and the tides were believed
They're literally a squeezing and stretching of space. The recording that was captured was of the collision of two black holes that rang the space and time around them, like mallets on a drum ringing the drum of spacetime. Those waves in the shape of space emanated out, traveling at the speed of light, although they are not light, which I think is a very important distinction I'll