Yamaha Rolls Out New Absolute Hybrid Maple Drum Sets With Unique Design Features and Expressive Sound

Yamaha today (January 23rd 2014) introduced the Absolute Hybrid Maple drum set at the 2014 NAMM Show.

Yamaha pioneered the construction of hybrid acoustic drum shells when it introduced its flagship PHX Series. 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.

Absolute Hybrid Maple drum sets feature a hook lug originally designed for the PHX Series, which brings out the drum’s natural tone by creating a small footprint on the shell. In addition to allowing quick and easy head changes, the lugs provide precision tuning.
Other features in the series include a new piston-drive snare strainer, hinged floor tom leg brackets, a low-mass bass drum bracket and the same style of spurs first introduced on the Live Custom drum set. Yamaha’s exclusive staggered diagonal seam and Air-Seal System shell-making process produces strong, consistent shells.

Even with the enhancements and upgrades, the price tag for the new Absolute Hybrid Maple is lower than its predecessor.

"For more than three years, Yamaha drum designers and acoustic engineers, with extensive input from our world-class drum artists, have worked to perfect the Absolute Hybrid Maple," said Dave Jewell, marketing manager, Yamaha Drums, Yamaha Corporation of America. "Hybrid shell technology gives these drums a remarkable sound that has to be heard to be believed. These new kits represent another step forward for Yamaha in high-end drum production out of our Xiaoshan factory."

Availability

Yamaha Absolute Hybrid Maple drum sets will ship in Spring 2014.