Hey there, my first drum set was a Coronet, I paied $50 for it in the mid 80's... 3 ply lou-anne with re-einforcement rings (looked like poplar..). It was a garbage.. Sounded like cardboard boxes, getting out of tune after half a song since wood wasn't hard enough to keep lugs in place.. Those were sold by Sears-Reobuck in the 60's.. The snare and the floor tom makes nice end-tables beside your couch..

I found a Coronet 12 20 14 (6-lug,all)with 5x14 snare at the Salv. Army last fall. dark blue pearl wrap. Flat grey interiors. Phenolic shells. These drums are sweethearts. Big, round with a serious bottom end. I passed them on to my buddy and he just finished cutting a dozen tracks in the studio with them. Check out the reviews :www/ TBruceWittet.com

We're trying to figure out how these stellar drums landed up with a Coronet badge.Oh,the price ? 25 bucks. Ya never know....

Hi Tommy! The name badge really has no bearing on the drums. They would be made by either Pearl or Star, and the distributor that ordered them also owned several "name brand" badges and would then sell them to individual music stores, and in many cases they were even competing directly with themselves.

St Louis Music Supply was notorious for this as they owned many different names, Apollo, Stewart, Polaris, etc. The sales rep would hit up Bob's Music on Main St, offering an "exclusive territory" on Apollo, then go right down the street to Drums Are Us and set them up with the same deal, only putting the Polaris drums on that store. These drums are identical in every aspect, except for the name, even the badges looked alike, oval Slingerland knock offs. These 3 name brands were all built by Star until about 1973, at which time they pulled out of the stencil biz and concentrate on launching an all new brand. This is the company we know today as TAMA.

The shells of the drums you have are actually not the later phenolics of Pearl fame, they are 6 and 9 ply Asian mahogany with a grey lacquer interior. Can you get us some pix posted of this kit?

Hi Johni ... these are definitely phenolic. I removed the wrap off of one and to my surprise I found a masonite type finish. 1 ply . very smooth scarf joint. pics are on the TBruceWittet.com site. I kid you not.