Spark Musical Creativity in the Classroom Studio 49 truly inspires us here at GearNuts with a wide range of percussion instruments ripe for music education, especially the Orff Schulwerk approach. The company's KB/KBX/S contrabass resonator bars offer students delightful sound, thanks to acoustically accurate resonance chambers, harmonious overtone tuning, and solid pine resonator boxes. With tones in a register an octave below the bass xylophone, it's easy to substitute a contrabass resonator bar for space-taking timpani. Studio 49 constructed this bar of sucupira to achieve rich, full, and bright tones. For this contrabass resonator bar, GearNuts recommends grabbing a pair of Studio 49 S 60 mallets for optimum results.Studio 49: German-built instruments since 1949 Founded in 1949, hence the 49 in their name, Studio 49 has crafted impeccable percussion instruments with the dedication of German ingenuity. From the company's early days of repurposing a washing machine motor for instrument construction