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Depends on the type of effect you want, Xylophone, Glockenspiel and crotales these 3 have a clear attack sound, it means every single note of the tremolo will be noticed, it won't merge smoothly as perhaps you expect, for instance Vibraphone would much better for this, you can use the same vibraphone soft mallets on xylophone and would sound smooth just not loud, in glockenspiel you perhaps could find some of the hardest mallets of timpani those with small head and use it in glockenspiel that would do a nice effect but again, will be mich reduced in volume, for crotales you would special mallets I don't know how to call them but it would require a very small head like 7mm and made of a sort of not too hard plastic like the rubber in bicycle breaks, so the Xylo+glocken+crotales can work fine with some modifications, but insist vibraphone would be much better and perhaps celesta, you also bow the crotales but will sound like 5 seconds only.

These have been the categories in 2012, 2011 (don't add too much 2010) and 2009 awards... Now I think we can add a few ones and perhaps remove one from the been said I like "Most Versatile composer", "Best Solo" would be within "Top chamber", I say nominations in this can be accepted and if there are no more than 3 works nominated for this then it won't be any "Best Solo". CJ we do have "Best Reviewer", Serge (Zach) won last year this year might win "Most missed member" and if we open categories in styles it will multiply all categories in too many options and it didn't work before. "Least obvious alternate account." maybe a catergory like "Most Problematic Member" or "YC's top troublemaker" "YC's Staff nightmare" etc "worse composition ever" could be but don't complain if one of yours wins. Most unreasonable member. Strangest member. Most religious. Most spiritual. Worst Title and if we remove some to add more if the funny ones, for instance I've never known what's exactly "Most Sexy-grazed" member that was nothing but Saiming/Max winning there and nobody knows why, do we remove this one ? Maybe remove "Best Journal" since there are very few journals and nobody read them they are usually dead threads and someone come once a year to post something... remove ? Staff's Pet ? Mitchell won until he disappeared and the same, nobody knows why since he wasn't even staff member. I'd like polls for all, simple and fast.

With what has been said: the best method is...to practice what you want you do.