Yamaha Maple Hybrid Absolute Wins at Frankfurt Messe Musikmesse International Press Award (MIPA)
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Maple Hybrid Absolute was launched at the January NAMM show to high acclaim. Out of the blocks the new drums from Yamaha impressed artists and dealers world-wide.
Quote “Since 1967 when Yamaha made kits at their head office in Hamamatsu right up to 2014, Yamaha continue to impress. I said back in July 2013 in our new facility press release that Yamaha would raise the bar when it came to high end Acoustic Drums. Well it took less than a year to start collecting awards, a proud moment for Yamaha drum staff the world over.” Darren Power – European Marketing Manager Yamaha pioneered the construction of hybrid acoustic drum shells when it introduced its flagship PHX Series (designed and made in the Yamaha Drum Lab workshop – Japan). As the name implies, the Absolute Hybrid Maple drum set combines a core ply of harder wenge wood with outer plies of North American maple. This unique configuration produces a drum with an unusually expressive tone and a wide dynamic range that faithfully reproduces every nuance of a player’s approach.