Yamaha Maple Custom Absolute Drum Kit

Advantages: Design, fit, finish & sound excellent!
Disadvantages: New lugs take a little getting used to.

...I bought my new Yamaha kit from Roli Garcia in Laredo, Texas. He's been my drum dealer now for about 6 years and offers great service before, during and after the sale. I first highly recommend you check him out, no matter what part of the country you are in. He's on ebay as "drumroom". Now on to the drums....NOUVEAU My first choice through Roli was a DW Collectors series kit in a wrap finish. He told me when I went to plunk down the deposit that he was now a Yamaha dealer and that they had some great kits in stock. I told him I would go check out the newest Yamaha kit I could find at my local drum shop and do some comparisons -vs- the Collector Series from DW. Price wise there is no real comparison with the Yamaha Maple Custom Absolute Nouveau kit in the same sizes coming in at about 30% less retail than the DW's. Yamaha...

jimmy58 11.12.2007 (10.12.2007) · Read review
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The Yamaha Blaster - The small contender

Advantages: Lightweight, powerful 200cc two-stroke motor, proven over time
Disadvantages: Wheel base and width cause instability in some situations.

...The Yamaha Blaster is a legend in its own right. It has been in production for many a year now and has sold in large numbers worldwide. Its success has mainly been down to the large spread of potential buyers that it caters for. Although its main target is the rookie rider, it has sufficient power to thrill most users while providing good value for money and great reliability. I have had my Blaster now for 7 years and had very few mechanical issues with her. Of course i have had to change tyres and top up fuel and oil levels when needed. I do as a matter of good maintenance, keep the chain and other moving parts oiled and greased, but this level of maintenance is expected on all such machines. I have recently rebuilt the top-end of my blaster engine and was very pleased to see that the condition of most of the internal waer parts was...

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Yamaha Stage Custom Drumkit

Advantages: GREAT DRUM KIT 4 OUTSTANDING PRICE!
Disadvantages: NONE?

...This Drum kit is amazing. If your a beginer or even really good this drum kit will suit you this kit is awsome if your looking for a reasonibly priced drum kit this is for you. I bought this kit about 2 years ago ive only made 3 adjustments like putting remo pinstripe skins on it and buying anew cymbal pack and buyong a mapex double bass pedal but thats what ive done this is a great kit and i would recomend this product to nearly anyone. The most affordable all-birch Yamaha drumset ever! An incredible value, the legendary tone of an all-birch Yamaha drumset is now available in the Stage Custom series. The low fundamental and warm tone of Yamaha's birch drums have been the top choice of drummers for over 30 years. The Stage Custom Birch series is great for the beginner or the working professional. The staggered diagonal seam allows us to...

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Are you smiling at this drum

Advantages: good for motor control and babies attention
Disadvantages: noise

...Smile at this drum, ~~~~~~~~~~~ This smile drum is one I have played with at work. It may not be what immediately pops into your head as a drum, but this is what it is it's a smile drum. This toy/musical instrument is a bit like a traditional hand mirror in shape. It has a long cylindrical handle with a drum circle at the top. The drum is just a drumming fabric stretched across the circle. The drum has a smiley face printed on it, it measures 20cm across. Young babies and children always respond well to a face on a toy the two eyes and mouth. The smile face printed on this drum is rather appealing. Attached either side to the coloured plastic frame that circles the drumming fabric are two beads that are attached with a piece of string. This drum is made in pink, y yellow, orange, or green To play this drum...

mumsymary 23.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Toyday Smile Drum

Xplore your creativity :D

Advantages: Sound, looks, quality, weight, durability
Disadvantages: It's not a roland? :P

...I had this kit bought for me on my 21st Birthday after being let down by the ION ED01 kit a few years previous. This kit is fantastic, admittedly a little too expensive but you still get a good sound, a nice drumming experience and a generally very responsive all round kit. The pre-sets are great, the ability to set up double-bass is wicked, the metronome is an added bonus and the coolest thing of all is the ability to jack your own music straight into the kit from your computer or other music device. There are several slots open on the end of the list of pre-set kits for you to build your own kits as well, which I've done loads of times, really fun! All round great kit for intermediate players and easy to move and store :)...

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Review of Yamaha DTXPlorer Electronic Drum Kit

tap tap drum drum tap a tune on this drum

Advantages: children love it
Disadvantages: noise

...The picture on this category is not the correct one for the tap a tune drum I will see iof I can remedy that , Tap tap, tap a tune on this baby piano baby. You can buy this toy for £9.99p at most stores look online these are so many http://www.mailorderexpress.com/LittleTikesBaby Tap-A-TunePiano.asp, and http://www.amazon.co.uk/Baby-Tap-A-Tune-Piano/dp/B 00002QUNX do. This toy is suitable for a child aged between 6 months and 3 years old depending on their development. We have this toy in a special needs school Now this tunefull toy is made of plastic its very strong. The piano is red with a white keyboard. There are no legs on this grand piano as the shape of this toy is like a piano. It measures about 8" x 8" x 4". So your child can carry this around and you could take it to granny to show of your Childs musical...

mumsymary 19.06.2009 · Read review
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Drum, DD Do

Advantages: Cheap, feature-packed, responsive and great sounding; perfect for many standard professional needs and beginners who want to splash out. DD's have been manufactured for atleast a decade or so
Disadvantages: No match for an acoustic kit or VDrums, toyish looking, some minor irregularities in pad response and limitations to the in-built recording feature

...) - and electronic aided compositions (whether the end sound is more organic or not) are no longer a scarcity due to the slow progressive assimilation by dance music via crossovers and other sub-levels. I own an acoustic kit, and before I bought one I graduated to it via seeing if I would stick with this drum lark by investing in one of Yamaha's early DD machines, the DD9 (which after a decade since I bought it is still available as an as-far-as-I-can-see cosmestically modified DD20) back in the early 90's. It was by all means a borderline toy; fun for the kids but with considerable use for those who wanted simple practice percussion. Fast forward through the years and you'll see amongst other things that the DD55 already existed somewhere in between as a slightly less featured DD50 (now obsolete) that competed with the likes of Roland (not that...

mo79 08.05.2003 · Read review
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The rumbling drums of Japan

Advantages: Variety of style, detailed booklet
Disadvantages: I cannot think of any

...A terrific blend of plucked Tsugaru Shamisen and feral drums. Wadaiko Matsuriza is a professional group from Hachioji, composed of twenty-one performers (mostly on drums). The power delivered by twenty-odd drums is very impressive. Tempestuous, electric, calculated and arousing would all be perfect words to describe Wadaiko Matsuriza. If you are not familiar with Japanese Taiko drums, this is the best place to start. Wadaiko Matsuriza manage to create a very intertaining style of folklore, mostly upbeat. This CD was released in 2002. Wadaiko Matsuriza have been touring since 1996. The group uses 3 distinct instruments: The Taiko drum, the Tsugaru Shamisen (the Japanese Banjo - not to be mistaken for the Koto instrument) and also the Horagai, the latter being a conch-shell trumpet. Gaku makes use of a Chappa too, which is...

gantzgraf 12.08.2006 (11.09.2006) · Read review
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Yamaha CP300 Stage PIano

Advantages: reasonable price, reasonable sound, portable, built-in amplification & speakers, USB port
Disadvantages: no music rest supplied, a few dodgy-sounding notes around D4

...Other than from an economic angle, I was never a fan of Yamaha acoustic pianos. So back in the 1980s it came as no surprise when their digital instruments failed to impress me. In my opinion Yamaha pianos sounded too 'wooden' at the top end. They had none of the 'singing' tones common to European pianos like Blüthner, Bösendorfer or Bechstein. However, after moving into an apartment in 1996 I was obliged to get a piano that took cans and chose a Technics PR900, which in my view was the nearest thing to an acoustic piano. It sounded like some of the best German pianos I had played. Early incarnations of this model had a very annoying background 'static', only noticeable when the piano was silent. By 1998 this static had been fixed by Technics. But in 1996 it was driving me so crazy that I sent the PR900 back to the store and got...

jasonford 31.12.2008 (09.04.2009) · Read review
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Great looking, sounding drum kit for fair price...

Advantages: Price, lacquered, looks great, sounds even better, easy to get hold of extra features
Disadvantages: Remo U2 head?s that come with the kit are disappointing, but you can?t have everything?

...The Yamaha Stage custom is a very well built kit, which equally sounds and looks fantastic. To the advantage of the customer it ranges at a price a lot lower than your average Yamaha drum kit but still is of the original Yamaha quality. I have owned the Yamaha Stage Custom Advantage for a year now and I haven?t looked back once. I bought it as a 7 piece in a metallic green with hardware. It now also has Paiste Signature cymbals and a Pearl double bass drum pedal also. But if you bought it new you would pay £690 for it. This is only with 3 toms though, with mine I have 5. Y.E.S.S. ball claps which come with the kit are the best I have seen, they allow the player to move the toms in to any position which is required which normal mounts just do not allow you to do. The Y.E.S.S. clamps are also designed so there is as little as...

stevedamouth 14.07.2002 (15.07.2002) · Read review
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