Yamamoto Gracy? Anybody know ANYTHING?

[pandafist]

Seriously, I can't find a single sentance of information on my kit. Help?

[hellacopter]

Sorry but I don't have any answer for you about your drums but the wrap on those are the coolest wrap I've ever seen on any drums. I wish someone could re-produce that wrap so I could re-wrap my drums with 'em... :)

[Bebop]

yea I know gracy.
I think they were a stencil kit but I am not sure.
I have a snare drum by gracy.
I love it. I think its an earlier one though because it has
a parallel strainer.
Seeing your wrap I am guessing gracy was made by pearl
because pearl was known in the 60s for making different/unique
wraps as well as the standard regular ones.

[pandafist]

to bebop- thanks. I wish I had the matching snare. If they sound anything like the kit, then I bet they're pretty awesome. I'll try and research under pearl for awhile. Someone else told me it was a Gretsch copy because of the badge design. That lead didn't lead anywhere though, so... here I am.

and to hellacopter- I totally agree. I'm in love with the wrap. I can't found out what it's called, so I named it Pearloid Weave. I'm actually thinking about selling it to fund some other projects. I have to find out what it's worth first. I'm not sure I could actually let it go when push comes to shove.

[O-Lugs]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Drums

[pandafist]

o-lugs---Thanks for the Pearl link. But it still doesn't say anything about Yamamoto Gracy. Did you see something that I missed?

[O-Lugs]

Hi. Allow me to explain...I was in a hurry on my way out the door to my gig. I looked up what I could find about Japanese drums. Let me now expand upon that link.

It is to the best of my recollection that there were two main drum building factories in Japan at the time your drums were produced. I may not be correct with the names...but I want to say that one was the Pearl Co. located in Chiba, Japan and the other one, which came later on was the Hoshino factory -responsible for early Tama drums.

Then I got to looking around some more and I found thsi link:

http://www.answers.com/topic/pearl-musical-instrument-company

...and noticed the name of the chief inspector's name was Toshio Yamamoto. I do realize that "Yamamoto is probably a common name in Japan -much like "Smith" or "Jones" is, here in the U.S....OR, it might be a relative of (or THE guy, himself, for all I know!) -the namesake of your Yamamoto/Gracy drums.

The drums you posted really do look like they were modeled after a Gretsch kit...and this would fit right into the description of the Pearl operation during that era -as describd in the link -some good information there in any regard.

[the_drum_dad]

If you look in the drum badge section under "Identify Your Drum" you will see a badge that reads "Gracy" and underneath it says "Yamamoto Drum Manufacturs Co, Ltd" and under that "Tokyo"

Your badges are not shown. I think it is clear that this Yamamoto company made drums for Gracy, or made drums with the Gracy name for at least some period of time.