When you put it upright, it just looks so much better. All kidding aside, this kit is easy to put together. When you buy a snare drum stand, you do have to put in a bit more consideration, because some of them don’t hold 10" snare drums.
The wrap finish looks awesome. It’s sparkly and chic. It isn’t seamless everywhere, but it has been put on carefully and looks tidy at the seam.
The snaredrum and 8" tom come pre-assembled. The 10" tom and 14" bass drum you need to assemble yourself. The 8" Tom had its drumhead on so tight that it barely resonated and I had to greatly loosen it. I can’t imagine that’s Tama’s doing. Now it’s fine and for as far as I can tell the wood isn’t damaged.
You get one short and one long spare fastening rod on top of the necessary ones. You get the legs, the tom holder, and the drumheads for all of the shells, as well as a bass drum lifter, that lifts it off of the ground. Everything looks and feels sturdy and pretty high class for a small kit like this.
The legs on the bass drum can anchor into the ground, if you screw the black feet up sufficiently, so two spikes may stick out that will dig into your drum rug like they should. When you play it without a drum rug, the spikes hidden in the feet, the bass drum doesn’t seem to slide, although it might when played heavily, which I haven’t tried yet.
I tuned the snare “up to a crisp,” giving me plenty of teck over little tahck. The drums are all quite responsive and sound nice when tuned appropriately. It’s a nice drumset that takes up little space, but offers plenty of volume when necessary.
