Models

Epiphone Casino

Electric guitar model

Electric guitar

A fully hollow thinline electric with twin P-90 pickups, the Casino is best known for its use by all three guitarists in the Beatles. Its bright, raw, slightly raucous tone made it a favorite for both clean and overdriven playing.

Camac Little Big Blue 44

44-string small electroacoustic pedal harp

Harp · France

The Little Big Blue 44 is a 44-string electroacoustic pedal harp in Camac's Blue line, a more compact amplified pedal harp with onboard pickups and a seven-pedal mechanism on a natural maple body.

Dusty Strings FH Family

All-solid-wood lever harp family

Harp · United States

The FH harps are Dusty Strings' all-solid-wood lever harp family, the maker's premium folk harps, offered from 26 to 36 strings with square-, stave-, and hybrid-back soundboxes.

Lyon & Healy Style 23

Professional pedal harp model family

Harp · United States

The Style 23 is Lyon & Healy's long-running professional pedal harp model family, with natural, bronze, and gold configurations.

Dusty Strings FH36S

36-string stave-back lever harp

Harp · United States

The FH36S is the full stave-back version of Dusty Strings' 36-string FH harp and the largest instrument in the all-solid-wood FH range.

Harpsicle Harp

26-string portable harp

Harp · United States

The Harpsicle is the original model in Rees Harps' Harpsicle line, a lightweight, affordable 26-string lever harp built to make the instrument easy for beginners to pick up and carry.

Squier Classic Vibe '50s Stratocaster

Stratocaster-style solid-body electric guitar model

Electric guitar

The Squier Classic Vibe '50s Stratocaster recreates the look and feel of an early Stratocaster, with a pine body, a maple neck and fingerboard, a 25.5-inch scale, 21 narrow-tall frets, three Fender-Designed alnico single-coil pickups in an SSS layout, and a vintage-style synchronized tremolo.

Dean Cadillac

Electric guitar model

Electric guitar

A single-cutaway electric from Dean Guitars built in the carved-top, set-neck tradition. It pairs a mahogany body with a maple top and humbucking pickups for a thick, sustaining rock voice.

Camac Blue Pedal Harp Family

Electroacoustic and electric pedal harp family

Harp · France

Camac's Blue pedal harp family covers the maker's amplified concert-size harps, including the electroacoustic Blue 47 and Big Blue 47 and the electric Mini Blue 44 and Little Big Blue 44, all built around Camac's pickup systems for performers who need to plug in.

Dusty Strings Ravenna Family

Stave-back laminated lever harp family

Harp · United States

The Ravenna harps are Dusty Strings' laminated lever-harp family, an affordable, climate-stable line of stave-back instruments that includes the Ravenna and related models.

Pilgrim Clarsach

34-string performance Celtic lever harp

Harp · United Kingdom

The Clarsach is Pilgrim Harps' 34-string performance Celtic lever harp, a fuller-toned folk harp with a Sitka spruce soundboard, also available in an amplified Wave version.

Salvi Diana

47-string professional pedal harp

Harp · Italy

The Diana is a 47-string professional pedal harp from Salvi, offering the full concert range and seven-pedal double-action mechanism with a spruce soundboard and walnut finish.

Salvi Daphne Series

Student pedal harp series

Harp · Italy

The Salvi Daphne series is a student pedal harp line with 40-string and 47-string configurations.

Heartland Delight

38-string carbon fiber lever harp

Harp · United States

The Delight is a 38-string carbon-fiber lever harp from Heartland. Its molded carbon-fiber body makes it lighter and more weather-stable than a wooden harp, here in a Classic Black finish.

Aoyama Monarch 47D

47-string grand concert pedal harp

Harp · Japan

The Monarch 47D is one of Aoyama's flagship grand concert pedal harps, a 47-string, seven-pedal instrument available with a bubinga or walnut-and-maple body and a gilded gold finish.

Bina Tabla Set

The tabla pair: sheesham dayan, copper bayan

Hand percussion · India

A tabla is two drums played as one instrument: the wooden dayan tuned to a pitch with a hammer and the wooden blocks under its straps, and the metal bayan bent with the heel of the hand. Both carry the syahi, the black tuning paste that gives tabla its bell-like tone and takes a specialist to apply.

Asano Nagado-Daiko

The long-bodied taiko, carved from one trunk

Hand percussion · Japan

A nagado-daiko is hollowed from a single trunk of keyaki — sometimes a century of drying before the wood is cut — and headed with cowhide tacked down rather than tensioned, so its pitch is decided at build time and never changes.

Gawharet El Fan Tabla

The Egyptian goblet drum, inlaid

Hand percussion · Egypt

Called tabla in Egypt and darbuka further north, this is the drum of Arabic classical and shaabi music. Gawharet El Fan's are aluminium shells inlaid with mother-of-pearl and shell, as much decorated object as instrument.

Nazareth Berimbau

A musical bow with a gourd resonator

Hand percussion · Brazil

The berimbau is a wooden bow, a steel string, and a gourd pressed against the player's stomach to open and close the resonance. It leads capoeira: the roda's tempo, and which game is played, are called by the berimbau.

Hugh Tracey Treble Kalimba

Seventeen tuned tines on a kiaat board

Hand percussion · South Africa

Tracey's kalimba takes the mbira of southern Africa and gives it a Western diatonic tuning and a solid resonating board, which made it playable by people outside the tradition and turned it into the instrument most of the world calls a kalimba.

Ayasa Handpan

Bought by scale, not by model

Hand percussion · Germany

Handpans after the Hang are specified by their scale — D Kurd, C# Amara, F Low Pygmy — because the tuning is the instrument. Ayasa's are nitrided steel, hand-hammered, and made to a chosen note layout.

Miyamoto Shime-Daiko

The rope-tensioned taiko that keeps time

Hand percussion · Japan

The shime-daiko is small, tuned very high by rope or bolt tension, and holds the pulse an ensemble plays against. It is the one taiko whose pitch a player sets rather than inherits.

Emin Darbuka

Cast aluminium goblet drum, Turkish tuning

Hand percussion · Turkey

The darbuka is played with both hands across the head and the rim, and the Turkish style — a thin head, a sharp rim, and finger technique that runs at speed — is what these cast aluminium shells are voiced for.

Dynasty Marching Snare

American field snare

Marching percussion · United States

Dynasty's field snares are built around high-tension tuning and a carrier system, and are common in American high school and college band programmes.

Cooperman Frame Drum

Tunable frame drums from Vermont

Hand percussion

Cooperman's frame drums are built with a tuning system that lets a natural head be brought back into pitch as the weather changes, which is the practical objection to skin frame drums answered.

SJC Tour Series

Custom-finished maple touring kits

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.

Roc-N-Soc Nitro

Gas-lift drum throne

Drum hardware · United States

The Nitro uses a gas cylinder rather than a threaded spindle, so height is set by a lever and holds under weight. It is the throne most often specified on professional riders.

Aquarian Texture Coated

A sprayed coating rather than a painted one

Drumhead · United States

Aquarian's Texture Coated finish is applied as a sprayed texture, which resists wearing off under a brush better than painted coatings and gives a consistent brush sound across the head.

Black Swamp Multisonic Concert Snare

Four independent strand sets on one drum

Concert percussion · United States

The Multisonic carries four separate snare units — cable, coil, gut, and steel — each engaged independently, so a player can change the drum's character mid-piece rather than changing drums. It is a fixture in American orchestras.

Evans EMAD

Bass drum head with interchangeable muffling rings

Drumhead · United States

EMAD's externally mounted damping system holds a foam ring in a channel around the head's edge, and the ring can be swapped or removed without detuning the drum. It effectively ended the era of pillows in bass drums.

C&C Player Date

Thin mahogany and poplar shells with rings

Drum kit · United States

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.

Axis Longboard A

Machined aluminium, direct drive, long footboard

Drum hardware · United States

The Longboard A is the pedal fast double-bass playing is measured against: a solid machined linkage, sealed bearings, and a footboard long enough to play heel-toe across its whole length.

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.

Grover Projection-Plus Tambourine

The most recorded orchestral tambourine

Concert percussion · United States

Grover's Projection-Plus tambourines use a stepped shell and hand-hammered jingles, and they are on a very large share of orchestral recordings made since the 1990s.

System Blue Marching Snare

Field snare designed by a competing corps

Marching percussion · United States

System Blue's snares were specified by the organisation behind the Blue Devils for its own line, which makes them an unusually direct expression of what competitive field percussion wants.

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.

Gibraltar Road Series Rack

Modular tube-and-clamp drum rack

Drum hardware

A rack replaces a floor full of stands with a tube frame, so a large kit can be marked, struck, and reassembled identically. Gibraltar's clamp catalogue is deep enough that almost any configuration can be built.

ATV aDrums Artist Standard

Wooden shells and a continuous-sample engine

Electronic drums · Japan

The aDrums kits use real wood shells with mesh heads and the aD5 module, whose engine plays back continuous samples rather than crossfading between velocity layers — which is what makes soft playing sound soft rather than quiet.

Contemporânea Surdo

The bass drum of the samba bateria

Hand percussion · Brazil

The surdo carries the pulse of a samba school, and Contemporânea builds them in aluminium and wood across the three tuned sizes a bateria uses — first, second, and third surdo.

Trick Pro1-V

Tool-free adjustment on a machined frame

Drum hardware · United States

The Pro1-V's adjustments — spring tension, beater angle, footboard angle — are all independent and made without tools, and the bearings are low enough friction that the pedal returns without help.

UFIP Class Series

The Italian rotocast flagship

Cymbal · Italy

Class is UFIP's main professional line and the clearest demonstration of rotocasting: bronze spun in the mould so the alloy densifies toward the rim. The cymbals are bright, clear, and unusually consistent between examples.

Amedia Old School

Built to an older alloy and hammering recipe

Cymbal · Turkey

Old School cymbals are made to a pre-war specification: thin, low, and washy, with irregular hand hammering and a finish left deliberately uneven.

Vic Firth American Classic 5A

The default drumstick

Drumstick · United States

If a drummer does not specify, this is the stick: hickory, 16" long, .565" in diameter, with a teardrop wood tip. It is almost certainly the best-selling drumstick in the world.

Andante Pipe Band Snare

Competition drums from a British specialist

Marching percussion · United Kingdom

Andante builds pipe band snares, tenors, and bass drums for competition use, where the ensemble's tuning and the drum's response are judged as closely as the pipes.

Rhythm Tech Tambourine

The crescent shape that fixed the dead spot

Hand percussion

Rhythm Tech's crescent tambourine removes the part of a round frame the hand covers anyway, which makes the instrument lighter, easier to hold, and easier to play fast. It is the most copied tambourine design of the last forty years.

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.

Istanbul Mehmet Sultan

The workshop's traditional jazz line

Cymbal · Turkey

Sultan is Istanbul Mehmet's classic thin, dark, hand-hammered line, made the way the Istanbul workshop made cymbals before the company divided.

Gope Pandeiro

Brazil's most widely exported pandeiro

Hand percussion · Brazil

Gope's pandeiros are the ones most often seen outside Brazil, in both nylon and natural-skin heads, and in the aluminium frames that survive travel.

Los Cabos Red Hickory 5A

Denser hickory from the heartwood

Drumstick · Canada

Los Cabos cuts its Red Hickory sticks from the tree's darker heartwood, which is denser than the white sapwood most sticks are made from, and leaves them unlacquered.

Crescent Stanton Moore Series

The signature line that built the brand

Cymbal

Developed with the New Orleans drummer, the Stanton Moore series is dark, dry, and fast, with a wide flat ride and hats that close hard. Sabian continued the line after acquiring Crescent.