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Gary Burton talked about cracked bars

wyndorps 8 December 2025

I think, I heard Gary Burton at the vibe hang talking that he had once cracked bars.

I got 4 cracked bars from a vibe player who mostly used the old allbright mallets and he likes to play with a lot of dynamic.
On my website I have fotos of one of these bars. www.wyndorps.de

Up to now I haven't jet found the time to sand down the broken anodized layer, but I will do soon. I will try to find out how deep those cracks go into the bar. May be it's only the anodized layer, then perhaps the bar can be retuned, reanodized, and fine-tuned again.

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tonymiceli Fri, 12/19/2025 - 15:45

keep us posted about the bars. I'm curious to see if you can restore them. 

my buddy lived with Steve Nelson and said there were a pile of bars at the bottom of their basement stairs. Steve had broken a bunch of them! I have never broken a bar, but I do know people who have. You must have to be playing much louder than i play. or???? what if you hit them really hard and then they smack against the resonators or the disk in the resonators, would that do it? 

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