Tama Drums is one of the world's leading manufacturers of drum kits and related equipment, and, accordingly, the well-known brand TAMA® .
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| Type of | Private company |
| Base | 1974 |
| Founders | Yongpei Hoshino |
| Location |  Japan Seto |
| Industry | musical instrument production |
| Products | drum sets and related equipment |
| Parent company | Hoshino gakki group |
| Site | Tama drums |
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Company History
In 1965, the Japanese company Hoshino Gakki ( Japanese 星野 楽 器 , translated as Hoshino Musical Instruments) , a manufacturer of musical instruments including the Ibanez brand, began production of inexpensive and non-professional drum sets under the Star brand. Production facilities were deployed in a subsidiary of Tama Seisakusho, which since 1962 has been producing musical equipment ( guitars and amplifiers ) under the brand name Ibanez. In 1966, the production of guitars and amplifiers was transferred to another division of Hoshino Gakki, and Tama focused on the production of drums. As part of the Star lineup, the production of Imperialstar, Royalstar and Swingstar models was launched, the first two of which were thrown out in the USA and replaced more expensive companies such as Ludwig on the budget model market.
In 1974, Yongpei Hoshino, the owner of the company, decided to focus his efforts on professional equipment, and from this year the TAMA® brand appeared . Tama is the name of the wife of the owner of the company, translated into Russian means "gem".
In 1977, Tama Drums, together with Drum Workshop, acquired the Camco Drum Company , while Drum Workshop received all the equipment, and Tama received the trademark, documentation, patents and all technological developments. At that time, under the Camco brand, the best pedals for drums were produced, and the Tama management, with the help of Camco engineers, decided to concentrate on producing high-quality professional pedals, and to produce drum kits for beginners at a low price level. However, the quality of even the low-budget manufactured units turned out to be such that, due to their low cost, professionals began to prefer them.
Since then, Tama Drums has developed and released many drum kit lines: Artstar, Crestar, Fibrestar, Granstar, Stagestar. [1] . Standing apart from the drum kits are a series of high-quality professional Starclassic kits that have gained acclaim among drummers playing Rockstar heavy music and Techstar electronic drums produced since 1984.
Tama was the first to introduce innovations that have become the standard on the market today, for example three-legged racks, crane racks, Octaban melodic toms , a gong bass drum, folding tops of racks, an X-hat, in addition to a closed hi-hat . [2]
Currently, the production of Tama drums is concentrated in two places: in Japan , in the city of Seto , highly professional installations of the Starclassic Maple and Starclassic Performer Birch series are produced, the limited edition Exotix and wooden snare drums . The rest of the company's products are manufactured in a factory opened in 2004 in Guangzhou . [2]
Famous Musicians Using Tama
- Imperialstar Bill Ward ( Black Sabbath )
- Starclassic Maple Lars Ulrich ( Metallica )
- Starclassic Maple Frank Beard ( ZZ Top )
- Starclassic Performer Francesco Giovino ( UDO )
- Starclassic Maple Michael Fast ( Pretty Maids )
- Starclassic Maple Dave Lombardo ( Slayer )
- Starclassic Bubinga Frederick Emke ( Blind Guardian )
- Starclassic Maple Franco Ceza ( Celtic Frost )
- Superstar Jeff Neal ( Boston )
- Starclassic Bubinga Charlie Benante ( Anthrax )
- Starclassic Bubinga Leo Crabtree ( Prodigy )
- Starclassic Maple Yucca Nevaleinen ( Nightwish )
- Starclassic Maple Anders Johansson ( Hammerfall )
- Starworks Paul Mazurkevich ( Cannibal Corpse )
- Starclassic Performer B / B Jeremy Colson ( Steve Way )
- Starclassic Maple Stuart Copland ( The Police )
- Starclassic Maple Roger Taylor ( Duran Duran )
- Starclassic Bubinga Pete Parade ( The Offspring )
- Starclassic Performer B / B Gustav Schaefer ( Tokio Hotel )
- Starclassic Bubinga & Maple Daniel Svensson ( In Flames )
- Superstar EFX Hyper-Drive Charles Streeter ( Chaka Khan )
- Starclassic Bubinga Simon Philips ( Toto )
- Starclassic Maple Alexander Manyakin ( Kipelov )
- Starclassic Bubinga Andrey Vdovichenko ( Alice )
- Starclassic Performer B / B Alexander Schigolev ( King and the Jester )
- Starclassic Maple Sergey Sakhno ( Vopli Vidoplyasova )
- Artstar ES Maxim Udalov ( Aria )
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Notes
- ↑ TAMA Drums Reference Page_____Welcome!
- ↑ 1 2 Tama Company :: drumspeech.com
- ↑ Archived copy (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment August 31, 2011. Archived September 2, 2011. Tama drums