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  • NEW-DEMO: 4-Piece Plied Maple Nesting Cocktail Kit - YELLOW

NEW-DEMO: 4-Piece Plied Maple Nesting Cocktail Kit - YELLOW

SKU: #20722
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​Overview


Cocktail kits have been around for over 65 years.  They were tall 16” floor toms with snare wires inside the upper head.  Then tall 14” floor toms showed up with separate 14” snare drums hovering above them.  Both of these ideas were interesting, but rather impracticable considering how much snare buzz you got from playing the bass.  Next came an idea that’s become quite popular--a wee snare on the side.  Ballads and brushes just aren’t so well suited to 10” snares, though.  Lots of varieties on the theme include a side tom, some cymbals here-n-there, etc, all designed to give the player a compact instrument that is played while standing.
Enter TreeHouse’s version.  First off, notice how a separate snare hovers over the bass, but check out the sizing: a 15” bass with a 13” snare offset over the bass.  The idea was to maximize playability, sound quality and efficiency of space while minimizing snare buzz.  An experiment.  To knock out even more sympathetic snare wire vibration, you could swing the snare around off of the bass for a more traditional 5-pc approach using the top of the bass as a floor tom.  Next come the toms.  The standard offering includes an 8” mounted tom and a 10” mounted tom.  What you don’t see from the outside is the effort to make these two near-sized drums sound as far apart from each other as possible: the 8” has a thick (10-ply) shell with sharp bearing edges and single-ply heads while the 10” has a thin (6-ply) shell with rounded bearing edges and double-ply heads.  Another experiment.  Survey says: They Worked!  The buzz is still there, but tolerable and--in context with a band--pretty unnoticeable.  The toms sound far apart from each other and have serious sustain.  Added in is some great adjustable Gibraltar hardware so now you’re ready to sound great on the tiniest of stages!

This cocktail kit features a seam lip in the bass drum for storing whatever you deem worthy of a ride in a tall kick drum.  In keeping with traditional TreeHouse Cocktail Kit sizing, the snare drum will need to ride to the gig in its own case, but the small toms, extra clothes, small hardware bag, etc are welcome to take the trip in the bass drum.
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Includes 4 drums, all the mounting hardware for the drums, one cymbal arm, one hi-hat arm, and one up-firing bass drum pedal. (Cymbals are sold separately.)

​Includes

  • 5x8 Mounted Tom
  • 5x10 Mounted Tom
  • 23x15 Bass Drum
  • 4½x13 Mounted Snare Drum
  • Four (4) Floor Tom Legs
  • Two (2) Snare Arms
  • Two (2) Tom Arms
  • Gibraltar 9611 Bass Pedal
  • Gibraltar Fixed Hi-Hat Arm
  • Gibraltar Boom Cymbal Arm

​Features

  • North American Plied Maple Shells
  • 6-ply 10" Tom
  • 8-ply 8" Tom, Bass, and Snare
  • Aggressive 45° x 22½° Bearing Edges on the 8"
  • Mellow 45° x 1/8” rounded Bearing Edges on the 10" & 15"
  • Double 45° Bearing Edges on the Snare Drum
  • Seam Lip on Bass Drum
  • Chrome Hardware
  • Triple-flanged Hoops
  • Academy Lugs
  • Oval Mounting Brackets
  • Piccolo Strainer/Bridge Butt
  • Pierced Logos as Vents on Snare and Bass
  • Hand-Rubbed Oil/Wax Finish over YELLOW Aniline Dye
  • Remo Coated Ambassador batter/Clear Ambassador resonant heads on 8"
  • Remo Coated Powerstroke 4 batter/Clear Ambassador resonant heads on 10"
  • Remo Coated Powerstroke 4 batter/Coated Powerstroke 3 resonant heads on bass drum
  • Remo Coated Powerstroke 3 batter/Clear Snare Side resonant heads on snare drum

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  • Products
    • Drumsets >
      • Compact Nesting Kits >
        • About Compact Nesting Kits
        • Compact Design
        • Compact Features
        • Compact Configurations
        • Compact Add-Ons
        • Buy Compact
      • Cocktail
      • Solid
      • Plied
    • Snares >
      • Solid
      • Plied
      • Concert
      • Symphonic
      • Split
      • Metal
    • Tom Sets >
      • Academy Concert Toms
      • Academy Fast Concert Toms
      • Single-Headed Toms
      • Concert Bass Toms
      • Tube Toms
    • World Drums >
      • Tupans
    • Wooden Bass Drum Hoops
    • Legacy Products >
      • Tambora Sinaloense (Retired Item)
      • Surdos (Retired Item)
      • Bass Boost (Retired Item)
      • Practice Tenors (Retired Item)
  • Features
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      • Solid
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      • Metal
    • Hardware >
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