3/31/2024 0 Comments Yamaha drums catalogue![]() Each seam is staggered 120 degrees so that the tension of the shell is evenly spaced. Once they overlap the diagonal unto itself they hit the joints so they are locked in. The ends of the master ply are cut diagonally, ran through the glue machine and then put into the mold. From their first conception, these drums were made from birch. In 1967, Yamaha introduced their first drum set - the D20 and D30. That’s one of the most accurate ways to identify Made in Japan drums. Unlike the popular drums which were made of maple and mahogany…these kits where made with cheap vertical grain wood called Luan. One of the faults of these “copy cat” mass produced stencil kit was quality control. Some even copied Slingerland lugs to the T. Some dressed in beautiful wraps like fantasia pearl, tiger eye and other attractive and wild wraps. But you may have heard of the companies who massed produced them - Pearl and Tama. ![]() You may have never heard of 1960s or 1970s drum companies.
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