Tama Serial Number Check
Serial Number Check Specs
Chill man, We were just kidding, Tama is not like most drum companies. There is no information released on their site to account for their in house number system. That is why we were having a bit of fun with your thread. Tama is a small part of a large diversified corporation that doesn't do a good job of communicating with the owners of their products. As a matter of fact, They are down right cold when it comes to customer relations.
They are a typical old fashioned Japanese conglomerate. They simply will not share anything with us and we can't easily share with them. Just go to their site and try to ask them something. Musical instruments are just a small portion of the conglomerates products. They don't even say what else they make besides Ibanez guitars. Drums are among the smallest amount of their products!
Tama Serial Number Check
This is a vintage Tama Swingstar kit, made in Japan, probably the 1980s (you can check the serial numbers in the photos).The specs for the kit are as follows:22. Get the best price on Tama Starclassic at Guitar Center. Tama hasn't forgotten about bubinga purists, either - check out the Starclassic Bubinga sets.
All communications with them are done by snail mail and you will receive a form letter for an answer. The reply letter will contain nothing that will feel personal to you. They are cold and corporate all the way. They do make some great drums though.
Link to the mother company. Hoshino Gakki. Pretty all the major drum companies only use serial numbers so the end user can keep track of their drums for insurance purposes, and no major drum company keeps such serial numbers on file. Also Tama Rockstar is was the lower line for Tama for nearly 20 years, and through the course of it's history, the snare drum only had minor, if any, changes from any one year compared to any other year. So getting an exact date for any one Rockstar snare drum would be near impossible and rather pointless, because it's age wouldn't affect it's value. Overall, it's pretty generic metal snare drum.
Tama Serial Number Lookup
The Tama website does have a history section with every catalog scanned and on file. You can dig through there if you want to try and narrow it down.