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Anyone ever see this style of Rogers "Big R" before?

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Hello,

These are for sale locally (not mine). The Memriloc tom post and arms seem different than other Big R stuff I have seen. Also, all the Big R stuff I have seen had wood bass drum hoops. It has modern, non-Memriloc spurs instead of those gigantic legs. The same with the floor tom legs and brackets, instead of those huge tubes. The internal tone controls also look odd. I have a "round badge" Star set that uses those same tone controls, with the "quick" off/on feature. Finally, that floor tom looks very "luan-ish" doesn't it? Maybe this was at the very tail end of the Big R era, before the went the R-360 route?

Could this possibly be a re-wrap with maybe an orphan or two (or three), using beavertail lugs? It has the correct t-rods on the bass drum, but everything else seems "off" to me.

Feel free to chime in,

V

Posted on 6 years ago
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Pretty sure these are from the Island Imports era, after Rogers shut down in the mid-80s.

And the R-360/380 lines were late 60's/early70's Rogers-licensed made-by-Yamaha budget lines.

John/Levelpebble

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Posted on 6 years ago
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+1 with what was said above. Are there worse kits available? Of course! Unless these are being offered for bargain "blow-out" prices, $200 or less, I'd pass!

-Mark

Posted on 6 years ago
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Big R badges with the black edging are imported shells. USA badges have a silver edging that show up even if you cannot make out the USA on the badge.

Posted on 6 years ago
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