Drum Kits · Models

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SJC Tour Series

Drum kit · United States

Tour Series is SJC's production custom kit: maple shells in whatever finish the order specifies, from plain lacquer to inlaid and painted work built for stage visibility.

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Player Date kits use thin mahogany, poplar, or maple shells with reinforcement rings and minimal hardware, and the resulting warm, quick-decaying tone put C&C behind a wave of Americana and indie rock records.

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Natal Arcadia

Drum kit · United Kingdom

Arcadia is Natal's mainstream line under Marshall ownership — birch, maple, and acrylic shells with the company's own hardware — and the range that reintroduced the name to drummers who knew it only from congas.

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Sonor SQ2

Drum kit · Germany

The SQ2 is less a kit than an order form: shell timber, thickness, bearing edge, hardware, and finish are chosen drum by drum, with maple, beech, birch, and American walnut all offered in more than one thickness. Every SQ2 is made in Bad Berleburg and takes months.

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Dixon Little Roomer

Drum kit · Taiwan

The Little Roomer packs a full kit into small diameters and shallow depths so it fits on a stage that cannot hold a 22-inch bass drum, and it ships with hardware built for the same constraint.

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PDP Concept Maple

Drum kit

Concept Maple is the kit that made PDP's reputation: 7-ply maple shells with DW's bearing edge angles, low-mass lugs, and suspension mounts, at a fraction of a Collector's Series price.

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Tempus Carbon Fibre Kit

Drum kit · Canada

Tempus shells are moulded carbon fibre with no seam, ply, or glue line, and they neither move with humidity nor add a wood colour of their own. The kits are very light and very loud.

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British Drum Co. Legend

Drum kit · United Kingdom

Legend is the British Drum Company's flagship: thin birch shells, in-house lugs, and the Palladium bearing edge, all made in Britain at a time when almost no kits were.

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Canopus Neo-Vintage

Drum kit · Japan

The Neo-Vintage series builds thin three-ply shells with reinforcement rings and rounded bearing edges — the 1960s American construction — with modern tolerances and Japanese hardware.

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Sonor Martini

Drum kit

The Martini is a genuinely small kit — a 14" bass drum, 8" and 13" toms, and a 10" snare — built for cafés, buskers, and drummers who have to carry the thing up stairs.

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Canopus Yaiba

Drum kit · Japan

Yaiba applies Canopus's thin-shell brief to a production kit, in birch and maple, with the small bop and medium sizes the company favours over modern rock dimensions.

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Sonor Vintage Series

Drum kit · Germany

The Vintage Series revives Sonor's 1950s and 1960s specification: thin German beech shells, rounded bearing edges, and the teardrop lug, in the small sizes those kits were actually built in.

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Sonor SQ1

Drum kit · Germany

The SQ1 takes the SQ2's German birch shells and thin-shell philosophy and fixes the configurations and finishes, which brings a Bad Berleburg kit within reach of drummers who do not need a bespoke build.

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C&C Gladstone

Drum kit · United States

The Gladstone line takes the same thin-shell approach into maple with more elaborate hardware and finish work, aimed at drummers who want the vintage voice without the vintage condition.

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Sonor AQ1

Drum kit

The AQ1 is Sonor's entry point: birch shells, complete hardware, and the two configurations — a compact bop set and a full-size rock set — that cover most first kits.

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PDP Concept Birch

Drum kit

Concept Birch trades the maple line's low end for birch's sharper attack and quicker decay, which is the choice most often made when the kit will be close-miked.

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Sonor AQ2

Drum kit

AQ2 puts thin maple shells, low-mass lugs, and Sonor's SmartMount tom suspension into an imported kit, and is the line most often recommended when a drummer wants the Sonor shell profile without the German price.

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PDP Centerstage

Drum kit

Centerstage is a full package — shells, hardware, throne, and cymbals — aimed at a first kit, using poplar shells and PDP's own hardware rather than an unbranded set.

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Craviotto Solid Shell Kit

Drum kit · United States

Building a full kit out of solid steam-bent shells is slow and expensive, and the result is unusually loud and open — closer to a set of orchestral drums than a modern ply kit.

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ddrum Dominion

Drum kit

Dominion is ddrum's acoustic line, built in ash, maple, and birch, and sold to drummers who know the brand from its trigger and electronic work.