Negi is a drum company in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka. My understanding is they are a very nice made drum. Have never seen one, but hopefully you can post some pic's.

here are some pics.....

Google Negi drums and you will find a thread in the "non USA forum".

Something tells me that someone installed that Gretsch looking plate in the middle of the bass drum..

But i do like the tom tom mount alot....def a Rodgers copy there.

Nice drums....nice color and worthy of a restore. Thanks for sharing.

Cool kit! That tom mount center section IS a ROGERS!

some pics, not sure what the shells are, i hear they are maple, 3ply.

the royal ace snare came up nice. the wooden bass drum hoops are being repaired, once they are done i will set it up and post pics :)

I have alot of Negi drums I use at my drum school- they are great. Similar to late 60s Pearls. I have been told they used Birch on most of their drum shells. The 4 Negi snares and 10,12,14 toms I have all seem to be a hardwood other than luan (different grain pattern) so I assume it is birch. I have seen lots of cool Negi vintage kits auctioning around Japan- in general I am a big Negi fan. I have seen a few super high end Negi snares that are fine hardwood (I assume maple). I say go for it.

No, Negi is famous for the Beech shell. Actually maple were started to used at some point. Now, they stopped using Beech due to supply problem. They also have been making school drums which are probably made from cheap woods.

I used to have a nice 18" bop kit. They sounded great.

The former president of Negi drum was a big fan of Gretsch drums, so they tried to copy the sound of Gretsch. I don't know why press hoops and reinforcement ring shell, though.

I think Negi was the best drums in 60s, early 70s in Japan. Pearl or Yamaha used mostly cheap woods at that time.

BTW, Hamamatsu is near my town.

That's what it was- beech, not birch- thank you for the correction. I would love to see more of them- that bop kit must have been awesome.