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 ...

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Everett "Vic" Firth, whose namesake drumsticks are among the world's most popular, has died. The musician and teacher was 85 years old. The news was announced on the company's website today. Visitors ...

Everett “Vic” Firth, a longtime timpanist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra who became renowned among drummers of all stripes as a manufacturer of drumsticks, died July 26 at his home in Boston. He ...

The timpani provides an essential rhythmic pulse for the orchestra. In the case of Everett “Vic” Firth, the iconic timpanist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1956 to 2002, that pulse was artful, ...

Drumstick manufacturer Vic Firth Co.’s former factory, at 77 High St. in Newport, sold at auction last week to Waterville boat dealer Hamlin’s Marine. Vic Firth relocated to a new factory across town.

In 1952, Everett “Vic’’ Firth joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as its youngest member, and by the time he retired in 2002, his spot as one of the greatest timpanists was well-established. The ...

"I had no intentions of getting into a business," Firth told MSNBC. "It was simply to supply a stick that was better than what was available. But I took it to a different height, that demanded the ...

Vic Firth, percussionist and founder of the Vic Firth Company, has passed away at the age of 85. His company is well known in the music industry for making drumsticks and percussion mallets that are ...

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 ...

Everett "Vic" Firth, a longtime timpanist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra who launched a successful drumstick company bearing his name, has died at 85. Firth, who died Sunday of pancreatic cancer ...