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When Vic Firth was growing up, he took weekly lessons on piano, trumpet, clarinet, trombone and drums —plus music theory. Only the drums — and the drumsticks — stuck. Firth, who for 50 years was the ...

The Vic Firth Co. factory in Newport will be picking up 14 new jobs due to its parent company's purchase of an Illinois-based company whose production work will be moved to Maine. COURTESY / VIC FIRTH ...

Everett "Vic" Firth, founder of leading drumstick manufacturing company Vic Firth Company, died on July 27 according to a statement on the company's Facebook page. He was 85. By Jackie Frere Everett ...

Vic Firth, who revolutionised drumsticks and became a household name for generations of percussionists after growing fed up with lacklustre quality, has died at the age of 85, his company says.

Firth prided himself on looking at the science of the sticks Vic Firth, who revolutionised drumsticks and became a household name for generations of percussionists after growing fed up with lackluster ...

Everett “Vic” Firth, the celebrated principal timpanist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1956 to 2002 who also started a successful percussion equipment company, died on Sunday in his Boston home ...