Vic Firth Drum Sticks from Musikmesse
Everett “Vic” Firth is an American musician and is the founder of Vic Firth Company (formerly Vic Firth, Inc.), a percussion stick and mallet manufacturing company that he started in 1963. The company bills itself as the world’s largest manufacturer of drum sticks and mallets. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company’s products are manufactured in Newport, Maine. On December 20, 2010, it was announced that Vic Firth, Inc. had merged with Avedis Zildjian Company. According to the announcement, both companies will continue to run autonomously.
Vic Firth Drum Sticks from Musikmesse
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Everett “Vic” Firth is an American musician and is the founder of Vic Firth Company (formerly Vic Firth, Inc.), a percussion stick and mallet manufacturing company that he started in 1963. The company bills itself as the world’s largest manufacturer of drum sticks and mallets. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company’s products are manufactured in Newport, Maine. On December 20, 2010, it was announced that Vic Firth, Inc. had merged with Avedis Zildjian Company. According to the announcement, both companies will continue to run autonomously.
Vic Firth was born June 2, 1930, in Winchester, Massachusetts.[4] He was raised in Maine by parents Everett E. and Rosemary Firth. Son of a successful trumpet player, he started learning the cornet from the age of four, turning over to percussion at an older age, as well as learning to play the trombone, clarinet, piano, and studying music arrangement. When he reached high school he was a full time percussionist, creating an 18-piece band at the age of 16. He played a variety of percussion instruments such as vibraphone, timpani and the drum set. Firth is now an accomplished percussionist with his own percussion corporation that produces sticks and mallets.
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