Acoustic Drums

Designed with a focus on flexibility, Yamaha's new student percussion kits will allow educators to reduce the carrying weight for the student. The percussion kits are built to be modular and lightweight. Given the heaviness of many student percussion kits on the market today, the Yamaha kits let the student carry to class only what he or she needs for rehearsal and/or performance. Yamaha Student Percussion kits give beginning students an instr...

Perfect for students, houses of worship and gigging drummers, these 100% birch shells offer a cutting low-end and provide sustain. With a six-ply structure the Stage Custom Birch accurately conveys the vibrations produced at the impact surface, achieving performance that overwhelms anything in its class. Features also include staggered diagonal seam construction, 1.6mm steel hoops, and eight new gorgeous lacquer finishes. The item number listed o...

Perfect for students, houses of worship and gigging drummers, these 100% birch shells offer a cutting low-end and provide sustain. With a six-ply structure the Stage Custom Birch accurately conveys the vibrations produced at the impact surface, achieving performance that overwhelms anything in its class. Features also include staggered diagonal seam construction, 1.6mm steel hoops, and eight new gorgeous lacquer finishes. The item number listed o...

Borrowing from our legendary Recording Custom drum sets, the world-famous Yamaha birch sound is now available in an affordable package. From the YESS mounting system to the tom ball clamps to the rich lacquer finishes, the Stage Custom Birch encompasses value, quality, and craftsmanship. 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...

The Live Custom delivers a sound with greater strength and depth, provides rich expressive power that exceeds your imagination, and features hardware designed with some new, innovative ideas that delivers incredible stability and reliability even in the demanding environment of the stage. Live Custom series is designed with a greater focus on playing in live situations using 1.2mm oak plies that are 10% thicker than those used on our Oak Custom ...

The Live Custom delivers a sound with greater strength and depth, provides rich expressive power that exceeds your imagination, and features hardware designed with some new, innovative ideas that delivers incredible stability and reliability even in the demanding environment of the stage. Live Custom series is designed with a greater focus on playing in live situations using 1.2mm oak plies that are 10% thicker than those used on our Oak Custom ...

Designed for top marching programs, Field-Corps marching bass drums provide a deep, resonant tone, and forceful attack. From the focused tone of the smallest size at 14"to the thunderous boom of the largest model at 32", these bass drums are versatile enough for both indoor and outdoor marching percussion activitiesFeatures: 7-ply birch/mahogany shell provides a precise balance of deep, resonant tones and solid, punchy attack; this shell confi...

Onstage and in the studio, the Yamaha Absolute series drum sets offer professional quality sound and exclusive new features. Shells are constructed of 100% Birch, with 7-ply Bass Drum shells and 6-ply tom and snare shells. Yamaha's new YESS mounting system for toms now comes standard on the Absolute series and uses a chrome-plated steel mounting plate. The YESS mount enhances sustain by shock-mounting the toms with dense rubber spacers between th...

Brass snare drums cut thru loud music but still maintain a good balance of brightness and warmth that work well in most musical situations. The quick release low contact Nouveau lugs allow the shell to vibrate for a more resonant drum and wide dynamic range. The lugs allow much quicker head changes because the tension rods dont have to be removed to take the hoop off. The detachable strainer and butt allow you to remove the snare wires for snare ...

Brass snare drums cut thru loud music but still maintain a good balance of brightness and warmth that work well in most musical situations. The quick release low contact Nouveau lugs allow the shell to vibrate for a more resonant drum and wide dynamic range. The lugs allow much quicker head changes because the tension rods dont have to be removed to take the hoop off. The detachable strainer and butt allow you to remove the snare wires for snare ...

Perfect for students, houses of worship and gigging drummers, these 100% birch shells offer a cutting low-end and provide sustain. With a six-ply structure the Stage Custom Birch accurately conveys the vibrations produced at the impact surface, achieving performance that overwhelms anything in its class. Features also include staggered diagonal seam construction, 1.6mm steel hoops, and eight new gorgeous lacquer finishes. The item number listed o...

Yamaha's BSM series snares have been specially designed in conjunction with Franz Schindlbeck, percussionist with the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Percussion Atelier at Yamaha Frankfurt. Features include a 6-ply maple Air-Seal shell with Violin Sunburst finish, dual-cut 30/45 degree bearing edge, shallow snare bed, 8 separate Honey-lug casings, die-cast hoops, Berlin 3-10-3 Combination Snare Wires, and a dark, European-style sound.