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Drum Kit

Yamaha Maple Custom

Name: Yamaha Maple Custom
Brand: Yamaha

Yamaha · Maple Custom Drum Set

Price: 2.727 EUR – 6.365 EUR

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A long-running professional drum kit built entirely from maple shells, prized for a warm, balanced tone that has made it a standard choice across studio, orchestral and touring settings for decades.

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About the Yamaha Maple Custom

The Maple Custom's all-maple shell construction gives it a warmer, more rounded low-end and smoother overall tone compared to birch or hybrid shell kits, a tonal signature Yamaha has maintained consistently across the line's long production history. Precision shell manufacturing and consistent bearing edge cutting - areas where Yamaha's broader instrument manufacturing expertise carries directly into its drum production - give the kit reliable tuning stability night after night.

As one of Yamaha's flagship professional kits, the Maple Custom has built a reputation specifically for versatility across genres and settings: equally at home in an orchestra pit, a jazz club, a recording studio or a large touring rig, rather than being voiced narrowly for one specific style - a balanced, all-purpose tonal profile that professional drummers across many disciplines have relied on for generations.

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Sound character of the Yamaha Maple Custom

The all-maple shells give this kit maple's characteristic balance: a full low end, present midrange and controlled highs that sit between the extra brightness of birch and the extra warmth of mahogany. That even-handed voicing is why maple has become the default choice for professional kits that need to sound at home across studio, orchestral and touring contexts.

Warm Full-bodied Resonant

Technical data for the Yamaha Maple Custom

Shells	All-maple
Level	Professional flagship
Genre focus	Versatile (orchestral/studio/touring)
Origin	Japan (Yamaha)

Price history for the Yamaha Maple Custom

Cheapest seen: 2.727 EUR · Most expensive seen: 6.365 EUR

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The history of the Yamaha Maple Custom

Yamaha's Maple Custom has remained a flagship professional drum kit for decades, valued for its warm, versatile all-maple tone across studio, orchestral and touring use.