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3 makers

  • Vic Firth

    Sticks and mallets from a symphony timpanist

    Models: 9

    Vic Firth was principal timpanist of the Boston Symphony and started making mallets because he could not buy what he wanted. The company he built became the largest drumstick maker in the world, with the pair-matching-by-weight-and-pitch process as its selling point and the American Classic 5A as its default.

  • Innovative Percussion

    Nashville maker of concert and marching mallets

    Models: 2

    Innovative Percussion specialises in the implements the drum set catalogues ignore: keyboard mallets by hardness, timpani mallets by core, and the marching sticks and mallets that a corps line is specified around.

  • Mike Balter Mallets

    Keyboard percussion mallets from Illinois

    Models: 2

    Mike Balter has made yarn, cord, and rubber mallets for marimba, vibraphone, and xylophone since the early 1980s, with a numbered hardness system that has become a common shorthand in percussion scores and teaching.