Vic Firth AH5A American Heritage -Maple-

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Drumsticks

American Heritage
Maple tips
Teardrop tips in combination with hand-selected maple
For better stick rebound and more airy cymbal strokes
Length: 16"
Diameter: 0.565"

Available since April 2005

Item number 178300

Sales Unit 1 piece(s)

Material Maple

Nylon Head No

Tip Tear Shaped

Length in mm 406 mm

Handle Diameter in mm 14,4 mm

Weight in g 43,0 g

$12.90

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Light yet strong enough

Terry A. 25.10.2014

Made from Maple instead of the normal Hickory of the 5A, however has stood up to my error prone hits on drum rims and lug ends well enough and are still usable after months of moderate but regular use. However signs of wear and chips at the tapers indicate nearly time for replacement.

Main benefit and difference over the standard 5A is that they are very light and therefore fast. Dimensionally they are exactly the same as a standard 5A.

Would definitely recommend, and certainly for a more skilful and accurate drummer than me, there is no reason that they shouldn't last well enough. Although I suspect a mega-heavy hitter would find them too light and flimsy.

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Good, light drumsticks

CheckDrummer 26.05.2021

Like a standard 5A hickory, but much lighter :)
The balance of the drumsticks is very good. Similar to hickory 5A.
If you hit properly, you will not find a big difference between hickory and maple in durability.
The sound on cymbals is slightly softer and higher due to the lighter weight of the stick.
The sound on drums is the same (like hickory 5A).

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Great quality

Ryan J. 12.03.2016

Most common stick and a great quality one
I tend to break a set of these every 4 months. So they're an amazing build (I'm not a soft hitter)

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musical

carl77 14.12.2022

very dinamic and lighter hits, makes the cymbals sing

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