First time I see a StarClassic maple with Accutune hoops ???
I know StarClassic Performer (birch) came with Accutune hoops in 1996 but the not the maple one. Maybe were they added by the previous owner.
i thought starclassic maple always had 10 lugs bassdrum, not 8 as yours, performer did until 2003/4.
Nope:
that's a pic of a new one, 8 lugs as you can see. Maybe that's why accutune hoops were added though?
Is your bass drum size 20" or 22" ?
22x17" (well it's either 16 or 17 anyway) The other weird thing is that i dunno if tama even make kits in this colour? You can get bursts and darker colours but i haven't seen any in trans orange.
This the link which confuse me the most: http://www.tama.com/history/history_detail.asp?i=137
Oh it must be a performer series then! yeah that looks exactly like my kit. The guy at the shop said it was maple but i suppose it must be mahogany/birch in that case. Actually i was using some birch plywood for technology and the grain looked the same as on my drums so it must. So not quite as good as i thought but it's still a starclassic and i still got a pretty good deal. It also means it's all original too and some idiot didn't ruin it with accutune hoops bit pissed off that the shop lied to me tho.
What I'd do being you is I would get back there and tell them they were wrong, so wrong...
You believe them and in their professionalism but in the end you dont end with maple shell so asked them if you can pickup a snare, or a cymbal stand or at least some sticks ! Ah Ah Ah !!!
haha yeah well i don't think i need to really, i didn't buy them 'cos they were maple and it's still really good value, but i will enquire as to why they said this when i go to pay my £2.50 which i owe them. I do need some sticks actually...
No, the original starclassic were starclassic maple and starclassic birch. The stopped producing the birch in 95(after that only offered in japan), and after some year (96 i think) offering a midlevel starclassic called performer wich didn´t come in 100%birch , it was a sandwich of birch and phillipine mahogny. The performers had accutune until 1997, when they came with woodhoops. In 99 they where upgraded to allbirch. The accutune then jumped to the last artstar in producion, artstar es.Turns out apparently it was "an honest mistake." Even though it had been in his shop for ages, the guy at the shop never even noticed that the starclassic logo was a badge rather than painted on. Apparently all starclassics had accutune hoops at one point though or something.