VIC FIRTH
LAMBERT M. SURHONE, MARIAM T. TENNOE, SUSAN F. HENSSONOW
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Vic Firth is an American musician and is the founder of 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.
Vic Firth was born June 2, 1930, in Winchester, Massachusetts.
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.
