Color: BLACK AND WHITE
Dimension: 400 × 10 × 10 cm
Origin: Canada

Sputniks are part flat stick, part square stick, part bundled rod, part striker array. Four flat, flexible plastic slats make up the main body of the stick. Each corner is fitted with a 1/8 inch black polypropylene rod, each with an adjustable half-inch nylon bead held in place by movable O-rings. The slats are bendable, so they can be adjusted to produce different sounds and bounce. An O-ring at the base of the slats can be used to pull the slats together and the outer O-ring can be used to pull in the corner rods. Adjusting these O-rings forward will produce a very tight bundled rod sound and loosening them produces a unique attack sound similar to multiple drummers playing slightly out of sync.