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The first love: Yamaha Recording Custom Cherry WoodWhat else could I say?I do believe that it would be a superfluous attempt to go into a lenghty digression concerning these drums, as no other model is known around the globe that has been used in the course of so many recordings, by so many of the leading drummers - percussionists, and which has been produced for such a long time in the original, unchanged form. |
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Once in Frankfurt at the Musikmesse Fair, I was chatting with someone about guitars, and the man said, "Wherever I went, in every major town there was a music instrument maker who claimed to have produced 'the best guitars in the world'..." What he meant was that in a small manufacture, given enough time it is possible to produce a few items of top quality music instruments, which are per se valued as pieces of art, but it requires no less expertise to do the same meticulous fine work on a factory line putting out several series in mass production. Yamaha succeeded in this, and thousands of drummers have been grateful for it for more than 30 years. My Recording CustomIts colour is the classic Cherry Wood hue, its dimensions are identical with those of the Radial Pro 1000 set-up, the only difference being that here the biggest tom is not the 16", but rather the 15" size. One of the nice aspects of prolonged, persistent manufacturing is that it is possible to buy new drums from the supplier that fit in an old kit perfectly in terms of colour and sound. I did the same with my kit, the 8" and 15"-toms were only later adopted into the family. I got my first Recording Custom kit back in 1984, and its hardware parts still function to this day. Frankly, I cannot truly imagine how this is possible, but nevertheless it is true: in first generation ball tom-mounts, the screw fixing the plastic ball does not exert pressure on any metal plate, but pushes directly against the ball. It operates without flaw, it has never broken or worn away since 1984. Amazing!. Those who have recently bought Chinese ball drum suspension, where the pressure of the fixing screw acting on the ball is spread along the larger surface of a metal plate, and have found that the ball still broke (or worse, got practically crushed and pulverised) due to one single badly co-ordinated move, know perfectly well why it is such a big thing for such an equipment to have lasted for 25 years. |
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T1: Recording Custom Cherry Wood 8" tom |
