bought because it seems to have a small and soft head to use on my hapi drum. The ones I have now are larger and reverberate badly at volume. The head is small but too rigid in my opinion. The handles are long and appear to be made out of cheap plastic. It's less loud than my big hammers, but because it's quite hard it also produces a thump, which I don't like. Again, it's cheap so can't complain.