jwebby85 Find yourself a used Birch/Bubinga kit. They aren’t being made anymore so don’t wait too long if you’ve ever thought of getting one. The longer you wait the more difficult it will be to get one in MINT condition. I have 2 B/B kits and I LOVE them. High end to the core. You should be able to find a nice 5 piece shell pack for $1500. The cheaper they are the more scratches you’ll find unfortunately.

John Mitch Mitchell top shelf drummer.

Why not? It is really cool when you can play Rosanna either way. I changed to OHP some years ago.

Nice one. Eric Idle I heard a few times but not Bob Ross.

Hey whats that flag mean?

@csrgatorfan dude there's no statement here. Just a question mark.

@Thomas. Hey Tom. How are those walnut drums? Are they as hollow and nutty as @csrgatorfan ?

He IS the mad scientist of drums haha ;)

Good point--:)

I do too. They are great kits.

I bet it looks and sounds awesome

did you shell out the major $$$ for the bubinga?

FanaticalDrummer why not use the bubinga for jazz

chris zod You have those 2 mm plies so they behave more like a solid wood shell like stave or segment.

Tama hihat stands can “tilt” toward the playing position.

Hiromi - Take Me Away

drumsanddrumming totally agree. Glad cobham went back to tama. After tama asked him to come to the tama anniversary festival and try out the new star drums he switched immediately. Haha. Glad he’s back with the tama family. TAMA ALL DAYYYY. I wouldn’t trade my 5 piece tama starclassic BB hyperdrive kit for anything in the world. The perfect sound feel and looks for me and the sound I’ve been searching for my entire life but could never find with other brands and other shells like my past drum kits being a DW maple mahogany (total rip off cause dws sound like shit and are priced wayyyyy too high), Yamaha recording custom, and a pearl masters maple, and none of them just did it for me and I was switching selling and switching and selling all these kits but come to find out my last search being the tama BB was the cheapest out of all of them but built the strongest, built the best, looks the best, best finish, best hardware like the quick lock Tom brackets, quick lock floor Tom Leg brackets, air cushioned floor Tom legs, swivel wing mounting system, and the hyperdrive sizes since i have always preferred shallow toms. All that for 1900 shipped straight from the tama warehouse. No other company gives you all that tech and top quality and sound for that price. It’s crazy tama brought down all those amazing hardware features to the starclassic line from the flagship star drums and still maintained that affordable price. And I also have a Japanese starclassic bubinga kit and I can faithfully say there is NO DROP OFF in quality from the china made Starclassics since my BB’s were built in the Chinese factory. People complain about that but that’s how tama gives us this great price for this quality. Obviously if I could choose I would have it built by the masters in Japan but they have trained the Chinese builders perfectly and they are now masters of the craft as well now.