A slip of the moon hangs over the capital; Ten thousand washing-mallets are pounding;
It is held up by two supports that look like giant, handmade mallets.
As if just riding a unicycle didn't look funny enough, add mallets and balls and you've got a truly wacky spectacle.
It was also considered that if someone had hours to wile away, they should be practicing their archery, not whacking at wooden balls with mallets.
A percussion instrument consisting of a mounted row of wooden bars graduated in length to sound a chromatic scale, played with two small mallets.
Steel drums were made of oil drums heated and hammered into an instrument with multiple pitches played with rubber-headed mallets and were often played in bands of many instruments.
