The year was 1979, and a 24-year-old percussionist named Neil Grover was living his dream of performing in the percussion section of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Neil got to play and was intrigued by a very old triangle that was treasured by the BSO percussionists. It resounded with a unique sparkle and spread of overtones. Neil’s natural curiosity led him to explore why that particular triangle had such a uniquely vibrant musical sound quality. With the help of students at MIT’s Acoustics and Vibrations Lab, Neil set out to uncover the secret of creating a triangle with prominent overtone resonance. Neil first crafted a 9″ triangle for his personal use (now Model TR-9). Starting a percussion manufacturing company was the farthest thing from Neil’s mind, as he was playing and teaching full time. When Boston’s top percussionists heard the “Grover” triangle, though, they insisted that Neil make one for them. Neil started making triangles, one at a time, to satisfy the requests of his Boston colleagues. To Neil’s great surprise, he started to receive calls from percussionists in Dallas, then Baltimore, then from all over the US! Word had quickly spread among America’s leading orchestral percussionists that Neil could manufacture triangles with tremendous overtone resonance. Unintentionally, the Grover® Super-Overtone™ triangle was born. Neil followed his triangles with tambourines, mallets, woodblocks, and other percussion products. Though still a cottage industry, Grover Pro Percussion’s mission was established: To produce percussion instruments of the highest musical quality. Neil developed and tested each and every product personally, ensuring a high level of quality control that remains unparalleled in the industry. In 1992, Grover Pro Percussion moved to a small industrial space north of Boston. The company quickly outgrew its workspace and, in 1994, moved to a manufacturing complex four times larger. To meet the growing demands for Grover products, the company invested in highly customized machinery and tooling. As the company grew, Neil started assembling a dedicated staff of percussion specialists to ensure that his personal commitment to percussion was embodied within the company’s infrastructure. In 1999, Grover Pro Percussion acquired assets of SilverFox Percussion, manufacturers of SilverFox™ drum sticks and mallets based in Ft. Myers, Florida. In order to ensure strict quality control, the SilverFox operation was relocated to Grover Pro’s facility. Today, Grover Pro Percussion operates in an efficient manufacturing facility located just north of Boston at the corner of Rt. 93 and Rt. 128 in Woburn, Massachusetts. The company employs a highly dedicated team of percussion specialists, production experts, and seasoned business managers. Despite his busy schedule, Neil Grover serves as President/CEO. For over 32 years, Grover Pro’s products have been in strong demand and can be found in virtually every corner of the world, from Alaska to Australia, California to Russia, and everywhere in between!

Neil W. Grover is a world-renowned percussionist, brilliant innovator and successful entrepreneur. His company, Grover Pro Percussion, has achieved worldwide recognition for the design, manufacture and distribution of world-class percussion instruments. At the young age of 23, Neil was appointed Principal Percussionist of the Opera Company of Boston, a position he held for seven seasons. His career soon started skyrocketing and he found himself in constant demand for all musical genres including symphony, chamber music, ballet, opera and commercial recording. Highlights of his collaborations include the Royal, Bolshoi and Boston Ballets, American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Music from Marlboro, Boston Musica Viva, Empire Brass, and with the iconic rock band Aerosmith. Much in demand as a recording artist, he can be heard on the film scores of Phillip Glass’ “Mishima” and John Williams’ “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”. In addition, Neil appears as a Boston Pops percussionist in the hit movie “Blown Away” starting Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones. He has toured with Music From Marlboro, the Boston Symphony, Henry Mancini, Boston Symphony Chamber Players and the Broadway production of “The Pirates of Penzance”. Among his greatest collaborations are his 35 years of dedicated service performing, recording and touring with the world-famous Boston Pops, where he has made music under the batons of Maestros Arthur Fiedler, John Williams and Keith Lockhart. Neil has been a regular in the percussion section of the Boston Symphony and has performed under Maestros Seiji Ozawa, James Levine, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Neemi Jaarvi, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Bernard Haitink. His percussive talents have been enjoyed by thousands at venues such as Boston’s Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall and festivals at Tanglewood, Hollywood Bowl, Wolf Trap, Blossom, and Ravinia. In addition, he has performed for millions of listeners through broadcasts on the NBC, CBS, NHK, PBS, A&E and NPR networks. Recently, Neil joined the multi-media musical extravaganza, “Star Wars In Concert”, serving as Principal Percussionist on two legs of their North American Tour. Neil shares his encyclopedic knowledge of professional percussion techniques and career development through his educational outreach programs and publications. As one of the field’s most prolific and requested clinicians, he has given presentations at over 100 colleges and universities throughout the USA and Canada. He is equally respected overseas having led master classes at such venerable institutions as the Sydney Conservatory (Australia), Conservertoire de Paris, London’s Royal College of Music & Guildhall School (England), Royal Northern College of Music (UK), Royal Conservatory (Scotland), as well as throughout Japan, Korea, and Europe. In addition, he has been an invited clinician at over 50 state and international days of percussion, including the Texas Music Educators Association Conference, Midwest Band and Orchestra Conference, Iowa Bandmasters Convention and five times at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. Neil Grover has written/co-authored five publications: Four Mallet Primer, Four Mallet Fundamentals, Art of Triangle & Tambourine Playing, Percussionist’s Cookbook, and The Art of Percussion Playing. He has written articles for School Band & Orchestra, Percussive Notes and Drum Tracks. Founder and President of Grover Pro Percussion, Neil’s innovative designs and cutting edge manufacturing techniques have set a new standard for the ergonometric functionality of modern day percussion instruments. Neil and his company have been featured in publications like Percussive Notes, Modern Drummer, School Band & Orchestra, Musical Merchandise Review as well as on two episodes of the Discovery Channel’s series How It’s Made. Winning the C.D. Jackson Master Prize as a Boston Symphony Fellowship student at Tanglewood, Neil graduated with distinction from the New England Conservatory of Music where he studied with famed BSO Principal Timpanist Vic Firth. Formerly the Chair of the percussion programs at both The Boston Conservatory and the University of Massachusetts, today, Neil’s own students occupy leading positions in many top performing, educational and music business organizations. Neil has served four terms of office on the Board of Directors of the Percussive Arts Society and was a Trustee of the Winchester Community Music School, one of America’s premier community music schools. Neil is married to Tony nominated actress Maureen Brennan and they have one son, Max, a corporate pilot.