Pearl MRV924XEP/C415 Masters Maple Reserve Bronze Oyster 4-Piece Shell Set

General

The four-piece Pearl Masters Maple Reserve is made up of a 22-inch by 18-inch bass drum, a 10-inch by 7-inch and 12-inch by 8-inch tom, and a 16-inch by 14-inch floor tom. Unique to this set, are the especially thin shells are made from North American maple - the same wood used to provide the much-applauded Masterworks Series drums. This wood is hand-selected to ensure the best possible quality, then put through an extra-long drying process before a tool even touches it. Each of these shells comes finished in a Bronze Oyster lacquer and finished with chrome-plated hardware.

Pearl Masters Maple Reserve

To keep the shells as thin as possible, just four plies of maple have been used, resulting in 5mm-thick walls strengthened by reinforcement-rings to add a further four plies to the edges. This construction strikes the optimum balance between resonance and maximum strength. The wood is then lacquered in 38 painstaking steps to result in an incredibly open and full sound framed by a fat low-end.

Shell Hardware

To pull the best possible sound out of these uncommon shells, they've been mounted with specialised hardware. So, the Low Mass FatTone hoops have specially welded edges for enhanced stability, and are low-weight to increase sustain and resonance without any loss of projection. The toms are mounted via a single lug using the OptiMount Suspenion System so that no contact is made with the shell, allowing unhindered resonance. To finish, Pearl have pre-installed a set of Remo Clear Ambassador heads on the toms and floor tom, and a Remo Ported Powerstroke 3 head on the kick. For extra control over the kick sound, a bass drum muffler even comes included as standard.

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• Please note: This product includes four drum shells only. The cymbals, hardware, snare drum, tom mounts and stands seen in the images serve illustrative purposes only and are not included.