• Mallet type: Viennese wooden mallet
  
• Material mallet head: cork with special felt cover
  
• Degree of hardness: medium hard
  
• Material shaft: maple / thinly lacquered
  
• Length of mallet (with structure): 35 cm
  
• Diameter of handle (tip): 12.1 mm
  
• Diameter of mallet head: 35 mm
  
• Height of mallet head: 23 mm
  
• Weight / mallet: 31 -33 g
  
• Color coding: none
• handcrafted in Austria
  

In the Viennese timpani tradition, this is a cork mallet wrapped in leather or cloth.

We know from oral and written records that this was the type of leather-covered mallet mainly used by Hans Schnellar (principal timpanist in the Vienna Philharmonic from 1894 until 1932) under conductors Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler, when Mahler specified "with wooden mallets" or "with wood" in his works.

A thin leather wrapping (EF202 and EF204) gives the oval cork core a bright, transparent timbre, in addition to its high sound volume. These combined qualities, in positive comparison with a "naked" wooden mallet, make the "Viennese wood" a very special instrument for use on the Viennese timpani with goatskin head.

The variant with special felt wrapping (EF 206 and EF208) gives a substantially darker, less transparent timbre than the leather-wrapped version. This felt is produced exclusively for Steiner Superiormallets.

The sticks of the Erwin Falk Viennese wooden mallet series, turned from lighter maple wood, are slightly thinner (12.5 mm) than those of his Viennese flannel models.