A drumstick is a type of percussion mallet used particularly for playing snare drum, drum kit, and some other percussion instruments, and particularly for playing unpitched percussion.
Read more on Wikipedia about drumstickThe main advantage of Vic Firth drum sticks is the guarantee that each pair of sticks will be perfectly even, calibrated in weight and the same in terms of the frequency spectrum of the sound of the stick itself.
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