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7 makers

  • Vic Firth

    Sticks and mallets from a symphony timpanist

    Models: 9 · Categories: 1

    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.

  • Black Swamp Percussion

    Michigan maker of orchestral percussion

    Models: 4 · Categories: 1

    Black Swamp builds concert snare drums, tambourines, triangles, and accessories to orchestral tolerances, with tambourines specified by jingle alloy and snare drums by the number and material of the strand sets. The instruments are standard in American orchestras and conservatories.

  • Cooperman

    Vermont maker of frame drums and rope-tension drums

    Models: 3 · Categories: 2

    Cooperman builds historically accurate rope-tension field drums and fifes for reenactment and early music, and a widely used line of frame drums and bodhráns. The shop has been in Vermont for three generations.

  • Grover Pro Percussion

    Neil Grover's orchestral percussion workshop

    Models: 3 · Categories: 1

    Grover Pro makes tambourines, triangles, castanets, and concert snare drums for orchestral players, and its tambourines — specified by jingle metal and shell depth — are among the most recorded. Not to be confused with the guitar tuner maker of a similar name.

  • J.C. Deagan

    The historical American mallet percussion maker

    Models: 3 · Categories: 2

    J.C. Deagan built marimbas, vibraphones, orchestra bells, chimes, and tower bells in Chicago from the 1880s, and effectively invented the vibraphone as an instrument with a motor-driven tremolo. Deagan bars still turn up in orchestras and are still preferred by some players over anything made since.

  • Innovative Percussion

    Nashville maker of concert and marching mallets

    Models: 2 · Categories: 1

    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 · Categories: 1

    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.