Everett “Vic” Firth, who grew up in Sanford and became known as a pioneer in the music industry for developing high-quality drumsticks and mallets, has died. He was 85. The announcement of Firth’s ...

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 ...

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 ...