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  • Ovation Adamas 2087GT

    Carbon-top deep-contour roundback acoustic-electric flagship

    Acoustic guitar, Steel-string guitar · United States

    The Ovation Adamas 2087GT is a flagship roundback acoustic-electric with an ultra-thin carbon-graphite-and-birch composite top, Ovation's signature multiple upper-bout soundholes, a deep-contour Lyrachord bowl, a cutaway, and an aluminum Kaman Bar neck reinforcement. It is built in Ovation's New Hartford, Connecticut custom shop.

  • Pearl Reference Pure

    Hybrid-wood professional drum kit series

    Drum kit · Japan

    Pearl's flagship professional drum kit series using blended shells of maple, birch, and African mahogany, with thinner shells than the original Reference line, engineered so each drum size produces its optimal voice.

  • Petrof P 210 Pasat

    Grand piano

    Piano · Czech Republic

    The Petrof P 210 Pasat is a 210 cm (6'10") grand piano and Petrof's best-selling grand, popular at exhibitions and used from chamber salons to studios and homes. Built in Hradec Králové with a resonance spruce soundboard, a laminated birch outer rim with Ebony Makassar veneer, and a beech pin block, it is prized for a romantic, singing tone.

  • Natal Arcadia

    British-badged kits in birch and maple

    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.

  • Sonor SQ2

    Built-to-order German drum system

    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.

  • Sela CaSela Pro

    Adjustable snare cajon

    Hand percussion

    The CaSela Pro's snare system can be adjusted or removed without tools, letting one box cover both the snare and the traditional sound.

  • Pork Pie Little Squealer

    Shallow snare in birch and mahogany

    Percussion · United States

    The Little Squealer is a shallow birch and mahogany snare that became Pork Pie's most widely sold drum: cheap enough to be a second snare and sharp enough to be a first one.

  • Craviotto Solid Shell Snare

    One plank, steam-bent, one seam

    Percussion · United States

    Craviotto's snares are steam-bent from a single plank of maple, birch, walnut, or cherry, leaving one vertical seam and no glue lines through the shell. They are loud, dry, and dated and signed by the builder.

  • British Drum Co. Legend

    Birch shells made in Merseyside

    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.

  • Sakae Almighty Birch

    The Osaka birch kit

    Drum kit · Japan

    Almighty Birch was Sakae's flagship under its own badge, built in the Osaka factory that produced Yamaha's drums for decades, with the same shell forming and hardware quality behind a different name.

  • Schlagwerk 2inOne

    Snare and non-snare in one box

    Hand percussion

    The 2inOne cajon puts the snare wires where they respond to the top corners but not the centre, so a player gets a snare crack and a clean bass note from the same box without adjusting anything.

  • DW Collector's Series

    Flagship American-made custom drum kit series

    Drum kit · United States

    DW's Collector's Series is the company's flagship line of American-made custom drum kits, handcrafted to order in Oxnard, California. Kits are built from premium shell woods such as maple, birch and mahogany using DW's Specialized Shell Configuration, then finished with hand-applied lacquers and exotic veneers. It sits at the top of the DW range, with extensive options for sizes, finishes and hardware.

  • Yamaha Recording Custom Snare

    Birch-shell recording snare drum

    Percussion · Japan

    Yamaha's Recording Custom wood snare uses a 6-ply North American birch shell with 30-degree bearing edges and lightweight 1.6mm triple-flanged hoops, a Q-type throw-off, and 25-strand snare wires, giving the dry, focused attack designed for studio recording.

  • Tama Starclassic Performer

    Maple and birch hybrid drum kit series

    Drum kit · Japan

    A Starclassic drum kit series built on a hybrid maple/birch shell (6mm 4-ply birch + 2 inner ply maple on toms), combining maple warmth with birch clarity for a complex, powerful, expressive sound.

  • Tama Starclassic Walnut/Birch

    Walnut and birch hybrid drum kit series

    Drum kit · Japan

    A professional Starclassic drum kit series with hybrid shells of birch outer plies and American black walnut inner plies (6mm 4-ply birch + 2 inner walnut on toms), pairing birch attack with walnut warmth.

  • Petrof P 159 Bora

    Grand piano

    Piano · Czech Republic

    The Petrof P 159 Bora is a 159 cm (5'2") grand piano, the most compact in Petrof's grand range and nicknamed 'the little big grand piano' for its rich, powerful sound. Built in Hradec Králové with a resonance spruce soundboard and a laminated beech-and-birch inner rim, it suits professional practice, the home, and smaller halls.

  • Pearl Session Studio Select

    Birch and African mahogany drum kit series

    Drum kit · Japan

    A drum kit series built on a 6-ply, 5.4mm shell with five outer plies of birch and one inner ply of African mahogany and 60-degree bearing edges, combining birch clarity with mahogany low-end warmth.

  • Mapex Mars Birch

    All-birch mid-range drum kit series

    Drum kit · Taiwan

    A mid-range drum kit series with birch shells and SONIClear bearing edges, offering a bright, punchy, focused tone as a step-up kit for progressing drummers.

  • Mapex Armory

    Birch/maple hybrid drum kit series

    Drum kit · Taiwan

    A versatile drum kit series built on Mapex's hybrid shell concept, fusing birch and maple with a SONIClear bearing edge for broad tonal expression across studio and stage.

  • DW Performance Series

    Handcrafted USA maple drum kit series

    Drum kit · United States

    The DW Performance Series is a handcrafted, U.S.-made drum kit line built in Oxnard, California from 100% North American maple shells (DW's HVX construction). It pairs professional shell tone and hardware, including True-Pitch tuning rods and triple-flange hoops, with a more attainable price than the flagship Collector's Series. A limited birch shell option is also offered through DW's California Custom Shop.

  • Premier Royal Ace

    The British professional snare of the 1960s

    Percussion · United Kingdom

    The Royal Ace was Premier's top wood snare, with a thin shell and the company's own strainer, and it is what a great deal of British beat and rock was recorded on before American drums became easy to buy.

  • Promark Hot Rods

    Bundled dowels between a stick and a brush

    Drumstick · United States

    Hot Rods are a bundle of thin dowels bound with an adjustable band, giving perhaps a third of a stick's volume with a broader, softer attack. They created the category and the name is now used generically.

  • Toca Player's Series Cajon

    Snare cajon at a working price

    Hand percussion

    The Player's Series cajon covers the standard format — birch body, hardwood front plate, internal snare wires — at the price point where most people buy their first one.

  • Meinl Snarecraft Cajon

    Fixed internal snare wires

    Hand percussion

    Snarecraft cajons carry fixed internal snare wires under the whole playing surface rather than only the top corners, which gives a consistent snare buzz wherever the box is struck.

  • LP Americana Cajon

    LP's snare-fitted cajon

    Hand percussion

    The Americana groups LP's cajons — plain, snare-fitted, and slap-top — around the format that turned a Peruvian box drum into standard equipment for acoustic gigs.

  • Canopus Yaiba

    Japanese birch and maple kits in vintage sizes

    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.

  • Sonor SQ1

    German-made birch kit in fixed configurations

    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.

  • Sonor AQ1

    Birch entry kit

    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.

  • PDP Concept Birch

    Birch shells for a drier attack

    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.

  • Sakae Trilogy

    Three-timber hybrid shells

    Drum kit · Japan

    Trilogy shells combine maple, birch, and beech in one lay-up rather than choosing between them, which Sakae argued gave the attack of birch with maple's low end.

  • ddrum Dominion

    Ash and maple kits with an acoustic brief

    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.