This is the best selling drum set of all time. Export (EXX) - introduced at Winter NAMM 2013, the EXX is Pearl's reintroduction to the Export line in less than a decade.A throne, a Dual Chain drive pedal, cymbals (16“ Crash-Ride Cymbal, 14" Hybrid Brass/Hi-Hats), Maple Drum Sticks (2 pr) and a Professional Stick Bag are also included. Roadshow (RS) - a 5-piece drum set with a 9-ply Poplar shell.Midtown (MDT) - a compact 4-piece poplar drum kit which consists of a 16x14 bass drum, a 10x7 tom, a 13x12 floor tom, and a 13x5.5 snare.File:OutsideBRX-15.JPGīass drum of a marching band in Ohio. SensiTone classic 2 brass shell 14'5 snare drum. Pearl Eliminator Redline pedals P2050C File:Pearl sensitone classic 2 brass 005.jpg Opti-Mount Suspension System File:P2050C Pearl Eliminator Pedal.jpg Pearl Reference Snare drum in Scarlet Fade File:Opti-Mount Suspension.jpg Pearl Midtown Compact drum kit in Grindstone Sparkle File:Pearl Reference Snare drum.jpg This creates a drum shell of incredible strength.ĭrum lines File:HK Mid-levels Bonham Road 聖保羅書院 Saint Paul's College 開放日 Exhibition Day drum musical equipment Nov-2011.jpgĭrum kit. The individual plies are scarf jointed, and all the seams are offset, resulting in a "seamless" drum (Pearl demonstrates the strength by parking a Humvee with its tire on a tom shell). While in the press, the shell is heated to bring the glue to a boil, thus forcing it through the wood grain and fusing the shells very tightly. Each ply is placed into a cylinder, and pressure is applied from both sides. Their construction technique is known as SST or "Superior Shell Technology." All Pearl drums feature this construction. In the 1960s, they ceased making shells for other companies, and began manufacturing drums under their own name and used the Pearl logo for the first time. Pearl has made shells for more than 30 companies. Pearl also developed the hinged tube tom-arm, a design widely copied by many other drum manufacturers. Pearl manufactured seamless, extruded acrylic shells that were different from the tabbed-and-seamed Vistalite shells used by Ludwig. Other early innovations included shells that were slightly undersized, so that the drum head would extend over the edges, much like a gong drum. There was also a shell made of a composite called "Phenolic." Additionally, Pearl combined roto-toms and these Phenolic shells to create the Vari-Pitch line of drums. Pearl created several drum products, such as shells in the 1970s that were made of wood with a fiber-glass lining. through Pearl dealers, Hughes and Kettner guitar and bass amplifiers are distributed through Pearl's main warehouse in Nashville, Tennessee and Sabian cymbals are distributed in Japan through Pearl dealers. The original Chiba factory now caters to the domestic Japanese market, producing drum kits, marching drums, timpani, and symphonic chimes.Īdams Musical Instruments are sold in the U.S. Today, Pearl's Taiwanese operation encompasses five factories whose output supplies nearly the entire worldwide market for Pearl products. by Norlin, the parent company of Gibson guitars at the time. ![]() In the early 1970s, Pearl was distributed in the U.S. In 1966, Pearl introduced its first professional drum kit, the "President Series". factory in Chiba, Japan to produce inexpensive drum kits, also known as "STENCIL KITS" that bore the brand names of more than thirty distributors such as Apollo, Coronet, Maxwin, CB-700, Stewart, Werco, Ideal, Crest, Revelle, Revere, Roxy, Lyra, Majestic, Silvertone, Toreador, WESTBURY and Whitehall. To meet increasing worldwide demand for drum kits following the advent of rock and roll music, in 1961 Pearl built a Script error: No such module "convert". Yanagisawa's eldest son, Mitsuo, joined Pearl in 1957 and formed a division to export Pearl products worldwide. In 1950, Yanagisawa shifted his focus to the manufacturing of drums and named his company "Pearl Industry, Ltd."īy 1953, the company's name had been changed to "Pearl Musical Instrument Company," and manufacturing had expanded to include drum kits, marching drums, timpani, Latin percussion instruments, cymbals, stands, and accessories. Pearl was founded by Katsumi Yanagisawa -who began manufacturing music stands in Sumida, Tokyo- on April 2, 1946. 3.1 Beginner and semi-professional lines.
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