Yamaha Oak Custom Shell Pack

4 Piece Shell Pack - 22" American Fusion!

Following in the footsteps of our Birch, Maple, and Beech drum series, Oak shows great promise as a drum shell material. A solid fundamental delivers a powerful sound while its character allows for a unique shell size line up. Beautifully grained, this hardwood creates a drum with stunning looks.  

Using Yamaha's Air Seal system for the first time allows the use of oak in a drum shell. As in our Maple and Birch series, this process delivers a shell that's perfectly round, with uniform thickness and excellent durability. The bass drum shell is 7-plys while the toms and floor tom shells are 6-plys. All shells throughout the entire range deliver a solid fundamental and powerful sound. These small, oval-shaped lugs are easily attached to the shell with a single bolt. This means minimum lug to shell contact allowing the shell to deliver maximum tone. Long found on our high-end drum kits our original YESS (Yamaha Enhanced Sustain System) mounting system is on all Oak Custom toms and floor toms.

Features

Shake It Up With Yamaha Oak - Yamaha is the only drum manufacturer bringing the full potential of oak to a srum kit. From the punchy resonant lows of the bass drum to a snare that bites and toms that cut through, the power of oak definitely shakes things up. 

Oak Lugs - Oak custom drums feature newly designed lugs with small footprints and single-bolt attachment that minimize surface contact and maximize shell resonance and sustain. A nylon insert holds tension rods in place under heavy play. 

Bass Drum Legs - Holding these powerful drums in place are our Absolute series bass drum legs. Large pipes are Yamaha engineered for greater durability and stability. Spurs slide in and out with a handy knob that also shows spur position at a glance, and a standard drum key locks spurs and height adjustment in place. 

"Air Seal System" Technology - At Yamaha, the process of manufacturing drum shells begins with selection of the materials. Select woods are cut into sheets with precision cut diagonal ends. The plies are fit into a form and hammered into place by a highly skilled craftman. The angled ends allow the craftman to finlely adjust the ply length, thus maintaining proper tension. Ply joints are staggered by 120-degrees and hammered into place in the same manner. An air bag placed inside of the shell and inflated at high-pressure puts even pressure on the shell's inner surface creating a perfectly round shell with uniform thickness and excellent durability. This is the Air Seal System, a process that has been in use at Yamaha for over 40 years. 

Yamaha Enhanced Sustain System - YESS - The secret of our YESS system is twofold: First, it provides minimum contact of hardware with shell; second, it connects that hardware at the nodal point* of the drum - the point at which it will not interfere with shell vibration. Nylon bushings on rod clamps afford maximum stability. The YESS system permits toms to be placed close together, and does not interfere with quick head changes. On floor toms, our YESS system offers wide open sustain while keeping toms stable under the heaviest strokes. * Nodal point mounting is patented by the Noble & Cooley Drum Company. 

Ball Mount & Clamp - A tribute to Yamaha design technology, our original ball mount and clamp has gone through very few modifications over the years. A large, ultra-hard resin ball sits in an attractive chromed housing, held in place with a titanium ergonomic wing bolt. It is the ultimate drummer-friendly mount, offering non-slip positioning virtually anywhere the drummer can imagine. Additionally, it permits tuning of the bottom head by simply rotating the drum.

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Yamaha Oak Custom Shell Pack @ Electro Music.
Price: £1463.00.

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