Their factory in Osaka produces their high-end professional drums as well as all of their marching percussion.

The factory in China produced the entry-level GigMaker kit and the intermediate-kit Stage Custom Birch.

The only difference between these two plants is that the Osaka plant uses the more exclusive woods (maple, birch and oak)[1] In 1987, Yamaha acquired the Premier Percussion factory in England in an attempt to establish the Yamaha name in the tougher European market.

Yamaha placed machinery and trained the Premier craftsmen in the "Yamaha-way" of making drums, resulting in Premier producing a large number of Yamaha drums "made in England."

In 1992, Yamaha withdrew and sold their stock shares back to Premier.