A Brief History
Star was founded in 1962 by the Japanese company Tama Seisakusyo (later called Hoshino Gakki) and
first started manufacturing drums under the Star brand name in 1965. In 1974 the company changed
it’s name from STAR to TAMA – so the documentation of this web site will stop exactly there: It’s all about
Vintage Star Drums, only!
Star Drums
It is my deep desire to keep the roots of these fantastic drums up from being forgotten. In parallel, the
community of vintage drums lovers is constantly growing worldwide. Especially over the last years the verve
for vintage drums, their sound and their flair has found more and more fans. And I know from several
drum forums, that amongst those there’s a group of people, who have a soft spot for Star drums. This
web site is dedicated to them.
Show me *** YOUR *** Star drum kit/s, please!
This web site is some kind of ‘interactive’ and shall stay vivid for a long time. So if you proudly own a Star
drum kit (or any other set with a name mentioned on this web site at OTHER BRANDS & BADGES), you may
send me pictures of it and I’ll be more than happy to present it here, too!