Which Japanese company makes Tama Drums?

Tama Drums is a brand of drum kits and hardware manufactured and marketed by the Japanese musical instrument company, Hoshino Gakki. Tama's research and development of products, along with production of its professional and most expensive drums, is done in Seto, Japan, while its hardware and less expensive drums are manufactured in Guangzhou, China.

In 1908, Matsuhiro Hoshino moved from selling mainly textbooks to including a musical instruments department that mainly sold barrel organs to schools in Japan. In 1929, as the guitar was gaining popularity in Japan and around the world, the company began importing Salvador Ibáñez guitars to Spain.

Throughout the 1930s, the company began importing instruments from Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, and the United States. In 1935, the company began producing its own stringed instruments in Nagoya.

In 1962, the company once again found that its subcontracted suppliers could not keep up with demand, so it opened Tama Seisakusho, Inc. (Tama Manufacturing Company), Tama was the name of the owner's wife, and is also a homophone with the Japanese word meaning "jewel".. In 1981, Tama Seisakusho would be renamed Hoshino Gakki Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Production of the wide range of Ibanez models is contracted out to third-party manufacturers, including Hoshino's primary and long-time partner in Japan, Fuji-Gen Gakki. Since the 1990s, Hoshino has contracted a growing portion of its guitar production to manufacturers in Korea and China.