Who can identify these drums?? - Page 2

All of the Roxy drums that i have are badged as such. That's because Roxy were factory badged in the Tromsa factory for mostly export to North America for Rudolf Linek. He also sold other musical instruments, cymbals (probably made by Meinl or Paiste)and had some hardware possibly made in the Trixon factory. The drums pictured here are Tromsa and made sometime around 1950. The bass drum and mounted tom have the older Tromsa lugs, which are almost identical to the lugs of early to mid-50's Deri drums.They are nickel plate on cast aluminum. It has been indicated, elsewhere(and may be in an upcoming book about Deri/Rimmel) that Deri/Rimmel made all of the hardware for the West German drum companies for a while because they had a new foundry. This could account for the overlap of some hardware styles in the 50's. The shell of the bass drum is European Beech with beech rerings and the mounted tom is likely of a Poplar shell with beech rerings. The snare drum is fitted with the newer lugs that were used up until about 1970 and most certainly has a Poplar shell with beech rerings. I have a bass drum with similar lugs in aqua sparkle, signed inside by the same person on numerous dates, beginning in 1950. They are nickel on stamped brass.I suspect, that this was about as early as these lugs were used.-------. Roxy, are a bit of an enigma because they seem only to have been sent to North America (although, i have seen a few on German ebay). They didn't seem to make it to the U.K. even but there are a few in Australia. For some reason Tromsa stopped badging their drums ,the more they did custom badging(Roxy,Concorde, Hohner,Vox,Korri,Lindberg,Kings). It was as though, they kept the German market for themselves and designated the brand through head branding(they also mfg. R.K.B. heads and later branded them as Tromsa and that was clearly marked as a logo on the front bass head). The custom badged drums would come out with brandless, R.K.B. or heads stamped with the custom brand. Most of the Tromsa made drums were 6 lugged and had fairly stressed shells. However, they also made 8 lug per side drums and these are as good a drum as any. The 8 lug snare drums had parallel drop snares and rims very similar to Slingerland sticksavers. I have 3 of these and they are a terrific snare drum. Very clean and free of overtones. Very responsive.This is partially due to the unique lug design. The lug casing is simply a chromed brass cover held in place by the tension of the head. There are no springs or other resonating parts----just a nut held in place by a small foam plug and all is held tight by the head tension and insulated from the shell by fibre spacers.