Welcome to the Rogers club. Did you mean you bought a Powertone set, or single drum - snare perhaps?

Powertone were the top line drums during the late 60's - early 70'. The Big R came in about 1977. Fullerton drums were far from rubbish until the late 70's when some were "farmed out". Anything with a Powertone label should be a quality drum.

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Thanks.

I brought a powertone set, consisting of 13", 16", 22", and it came with a 5x14 super ten, which seems quite nice, even though I do prefer my 1977 premier 2000 (sorry, but it sounds great). It's finished in Koa wood wrap. Looks nice, and it looks like it could have been left in boxes for 30 years, it's in that good condition.

So what year do you think it could be, it has script badges? Do you know what year the powertones were made till?

Oh and what the difference between the holiday and the powertone? It seems to be a lot easier to find info on the holiday kits then the powertone kits for some reason.

Any help is awesome.

Thanks.

Fullerton Powertone drums are the same as the Dayton Holiday drums. Its really just a name change. Heres the reason. The Holiday Snare drum tag disappeard in early 1963, replaced by the Powertone tag in the midrange drum. This was long about the time the bearing edges were changed to a more modern profile, the snare bed significantly leveled out, as well as narrowed, and the introduction of the Beavertail Lug Casing. In 1968-69 when production moved from Covington Ohio to Fullerton California, the paper tags were again redesigned with the introduction of the POWERTONE name for the drums themselves. Swivomatic hardware was produced until 1975 with the Memrilock hardware system replacing them. Since your drums have Powertone tags, not 9/72 tags, then it is safe to assume your drums were produced between 1969 and 1972, I would have to check catalogue color for certain on that span. But that is the time span for Fullerton Powertone drums.

Big R came out in 1975.

I think we exchanged email on this set, I hope you got a good price.

As for the Superten.......... its a nice drum. Came out in 1973.

Ploughman always has good info. I checked the finish and color chart and the KOA wrap was from 1973 to 1976. So this leaves some question as to when your drums were made. Pictures of the interiors would help a lot.

Jack

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If you go to "View Snare Finishes" at the top of this page it shows New Koa on the 1970 swatch catalog page. Peace, Gary

Thanks.

I've seen a catalog that show the Koa finish being offered in 1970. So I'm guessing that it was made anytime around then.

Somebody was telling me that the powertones were the cheap kits that rogers made back in their day, but then somebody else told me that they were a top of the line drum and that all the holidays, londoners etc were pretty much the same, but with tiny differences and different names.

Anyway I got it for $1900 New Zealand dollars which would be around $1500US at the moment. I just loved it and it's in such good condition that I couldn't say no. I used to own a Ludwig reissue that sounded so great, I loved that kit, but I was young and sold it. I've regretted it since, so when this came up, and I saw it, I was like, I gotta grab this, and it sounds so nice, kind of like you would imagine a drum is meant to sound. I 've got nothing against modern kits but, I didn't feel like I had to stuff around for ages with tuning, it's like it just seemed to tune itself.

So you would agree that the Powertone drums from Fullertone are great drums?

Thanks.

For your country, thats probably not a bad price

Fullerton Powertones are indeed great drums. Some say that the Fullerton chrome was superior to earlier chrome.

Good drums.

Jack:)

Edgepops, these are superb drums--some of the best ever made. Hold on to 'em; they are collectors drums and command some of the top prices in the market. Musicbybj, Ploughman and GaryN are three of the top Rogers experts, and they won't steer you wrong.