![]() If I needed spare parts Yamaha still make all the parts for my kit. When I bought my Yamaha kit I totally stripped it and cleaned every piece. ![]() If you've got a kit that's over 25 years old I think you're entitled to call it vintage With a kit like yours if it's over 10 years old and made of quality wood then the wood should be starting to age nicely which may improve the tone slightly. Yamaha don't even keep records of the serial numbers they put on their drums! The only way to tell the age of a Yamaha kit is by looking at the drums themselves and seeing what type of lugs, badge, etc they have and using those to date the drum to somewhere in probably a 5 year range. I don't know about Pearl serial numbers on drums, but if they are like Yamaha drums they mean nothing as I found out when I talked to Yamaha when trying to date my kit (between 1992 and some time later in the 90s). My Yamaha kit is better looking on the inside than the outside ). ![]() If the insides of the shells are really smooth and look like a piece of furniture and not the inside of a drum you've probably got a high end kit. Personally I like Birch kits like my Yamaha Recording Custom. Therefore it should be a fairly decent kit and it should sound pretty good. ![]() ![]() As Randyman said it sounds like you have an all birch kit there. ![]()
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