Model

Vic Firth Heritage Brush

Retractable wire brush with a wood handle

The Heritage brush pairs a wood handle with retractable steel wires, and is one of the two or three brushes that turn up on most jazz recordings.

Sources

Category

  • Drumsticks & Mallets

    Hickory, maple, and oak sticks by model number; wire and nylon brushes; and the yarn, cord, and felt mallets that concert percussion is played with.

Made by

  • Vic Firth

    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.