Premier Cabria drums

[nighthawk11]

I decided to buy a second kit I could take to my smaller gigs. I purchased a Premier Cabria XPK 5 piece kit in an amber lacquer finish. I haven't been able to find out much information about them, but they appear well built and solid. They sound good, although I'm still in the cleaning process. It appears the young man I bought them from didn't own any cleaning or polishing products. I'm on the last drum now and will post pics as soon as I can.
For any of you Premier fans out there, if you can provide me some info on this kit, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Mark...


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[drumnpk]

The Cabria was first launched in 1998, taking its place as Premier's most advanced budget-level kit. Today the Cabria is sandwiched between Premier's Olympic beginners' kits and the company's Artist and Series professional ranges
The main difference between the three levels is in the wood chosen for construction. The PK has basswood, the APK is ash with a maple inner veneer, and the impressive XPK now has a 100 percent maple shell, for the first time on a budget Premier kit. Yes, it's Chinese maple as opposed to premium North American rock maple, the material associated with more expensive pro kits, but we wonder just how big a difference that makes? Assuming it's the same genus then maple is maple, surely?
Hope that helps..

[nighthawk11]

Finally finished cleaning all the drums, putting all the hardware back on the shells, and tuning up the new heads. This thing sounds awesome. Here are a few pics. Entry/budget level kit or not, it looks good and sounds great.

[nighthawk11]

and a couple more...

[Bubingabill]

Lookin good Nighthawk,what kind of heads are on that beauty?

[nighthawk11]

Right now I'm using the Aquarian Studio-X coated heads I took off my main kit. I'll be replacing these with the Aquarian Super-2 coated heads soon. The kick has an Aquarian Super Kick-2 and a Remo coated ambassador on the front. I'm waiting on the Kickport. The snare drum that came with the kit still needs to be cleaned and polished. I haven't decided on heads for it yet.

[Pearl MCX Man]

Nice looking kit nighthawk lucky for you that underneath the dirt and grime there was this beautiful flawless looking finish. Congrats.

[nighthawk11]

I'm still trying to figure out how dust bunnies got inside the drums.

[Riouel]

congrad on your new kit
look really nice now
can you clean mine now that you have finish
enjoy your new toy

[MartyM]

Very Nice NH, hey since the person who owned it and dis-respected a musical instrament..did you get a smokin deal? hope so. Looks good no matter what level
of quality it was!

[nighthawk11]

Yes, the deal was a fair one. The funny thing is, he sold them because he got a new Ddrum Dominion kit for Christmas, which will likely suffer the same fate as the Cabria kit.

[MartyM]

Yes, the deal was a fair one. The funny thing is, he sold them because he got a new Ddrum Dominion kit for Christmas, which will likely suffer the same fate as the Cabria kit.

they probably will...you and I know...take care of equipment and it will last and function for years!

[Skimp241]

Look amazing Nighthawk,love the color.enjoy your new kit.

[LukeHarrison]

First of all, good evening everybody, it's been a while since I last visited. :P

Secondly, those are very nice drums, but rather confusing. Those lugs and badges are from the first generation Cabrias of about fifteen years ago, but the badges have new Premier logos on them (at the time the logo was block capitals if I remember rightly), and the Cabria XPK's we got here in Britain had different lugs, red P badges and die-cast hoops (I can't quite tell what they are on yours, but they look triple-flanged to me).

Still a very, very nice kit, and possibly the latest in the tradition of Premier re-using old parts from the factory, a tradition which according to my dad seems to stretch back about forty years.

It's in my favourite colour too, love the yellow lacquers.

[nighthawk11]

LukeHarrison, thanks for the info man. I don't know a whole lot about Premier drums. I just know when I went to this kids garage to check them out, they looked very well made and sounded good. Several days worth of cleaning and some new heads and these things sound awesome. I knew the set had a few years on it, but it looked good for the most part. Either way, I'm quite happy with it and plan to take it to Friday's gig.

[LukeHarrison]

All the hardware besides the lugs is current generation Premier (all the mounts etc.), so it's certainly a recent kit, it's just strange about the lugs and badges. Especially the badges, as they've not just been reused, but actually remade with the most recent logo.

As I said before though, very nice kit man, if it sounds as good as it looks, you'll go down a storm on Friday.

[nighthawk11]

Yeah, I've looked online and doing searches for a similar Cabria kit. I've found two others on CL, one for 2x's and one for3x's what I paid. There's not much info on them though, ie; year made, wood type, etc....

[Homeularis]

Wow!, those are beauties.

They look brand new. You should be proud.

I dont know much about Premier drums, but I can tell by looking at em that they are well made.

Nice looking shells, drum hardware, finish, lug gaskets etc...

[pastor_bob]

Beautiful kit nighthawk! I love how the woodgrain shows through!

[nighthawk11]

Thanks PB. I've got the kit sounding good and am looking forward to Friday's gig. I'm just taking the 5 piece kit and a couple of cymbals. It's a small venue and not a whole lot of wiggle room on the "stage".

[Jerzey Street Band (JSB)]

Real nice looking kit Night, they scrub up well.

[nighthawk11]

Well, I found out a little bit more about these drums today. This info was listed on CL in Sacramento, Cal., same kit, same color.
Thanks for your e-mail.
The kit pictured is a Cabria Exclusive made pre-2004 model.
The shells were 7-ply Philippine mahogany.

Yours sincerely
The Premier Sales and Marketing team
Thank you for contacting Premier Music International Limited.

Don't know much about the Philippine mahogany used for the shells, but she sure does sound nice. Sorry about digging up an old thread. Just wanted to give some updated info.

[HEAVYROCK9]

Nice job. Those are great looking drums. Would look nice beside my Premier SIGAIA's!!

[chrisbkk]

I used to have the Premier Cabria APK but recently upgraded; it was a great kit for practicing on; Premier have stopped making them now also so It may be a nice thing to have around if you keep it clean!

[topdog63]

The drool factor is off the charts with those things man. Great kit!