Pearl drums have the first Japanese drum related brand to penetrate the US and UK.
Pearl drums, manufactured by the Pearl Instrument Company, are the most widely
used drum kits today. Katsumi Yanagisawa, the founder of Pearl, started his
company in 1946 in Tokyo Japan. He did not start out by making Pearl drums and
drum kits, but music stands. (Once Yanagisawa got into the percussion business,
the music stands were redesigned into cymbal stands.)
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