Here’s my Eagle Badge Rogers Cleveland Holiday Astoria floor outfit in Sparkling Mardi Gras Pearl.
Cocktail Drum Outfits
I have a Ludwig 1968 Miami Beach and I use a 1959 trans badge Ludwig piccolo with it. I did an article for NSMD on my set.https://www.notsomoderndrummer.com/not-so-modern-drummer/2018/10/29/cocktails-anyone
Very nice setup. I bet that’s fun to play!
I'm confused...Isn't it a "Parklane" model, though? The one without the tom is the Astoria...right? And your snare is on a floor stand as opposed to shell mounted.
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I'm confused...Isn't it a "Parklane" model, though? The one without the tom is the Astoria...right? And your snare is on a floor stand as opposed to shell mounted.
Hello, you know I’m not too sure.
I wish it was a Parklane, it’s setup more in that style, but the floor tom looks like an Astoria model due to only having 2 knobbys. It came with my kit as a complete 4 piece with matching snare. Originally the snare and floor did not come as part of kit, they have black interiors and have earlier 4 digit serials while the kick and tom are grey inside.
The Astoria model had 2 knobbys for the snare and a splash or cymbal arm. I just mount the 13” tom I.e Parklane style sans snare. Parklane and Showcase model had more knobbys and at least a double knobby mount towards the top of floor.
But you know, it’s weird, as the Astoria came out later certainly during script era and my floor is an Eagle Badge, I wish I really knew.
But in short, that is how the kit gets separated from its conventional style as the snare is a full range Holiday with no collet for the mount. I just went with Astoria name as that was the configuration based on the knobbys for mounting.
Irrespective of what name the outfit has, that is one spiffy drum set. The uniqueness of the drum set configuration and the rarity of the Mardi Gras wrap make for something very special. I hope that you get many years of enjoyment from those beautiful Rogers drums.
Let's show off our cocktail drum outfits--preferably those from pre-1970 vintage. I'll start by posting about my 1950's Gretsch outfit. The 24x14 cocktail drum is the right height for play from either the standing or the seated position. The large drum and the 6x8 bongo tom have the original store badges from Brochstein's alder store location in Houston. Heb Brochstein operated this music store for many years befor starting the Promark company located in Houston. The cocktail drum was originally a single-headed drum with the horrible little fan of snare under the batter head. The drum had been drilled for several attachments. So, I felt no guilt about removing the wooden ring around the bottom of the drum, and using it as a hoop for the new bottom head that I installed. I bought a 6.5 x8 popcorn snare that I wrapped with a scrap of perfectly matching Sky Blue Pearl given to me by a forum friend. The snare drum, tom, two cymbal, and a cowbell are all mounted to the cocktail drum. I have a few convertable bass drum pedals by Ludwig, Leedy, and Gretsch, but no mounting bracket. I bought a great new Gibralter pedal complete with bracket online for $99. That bracket will work with any up-beat pedal. But, the Gibralter seems to be very substantial.
That is a proper beaut!
Love the finish and also the 6” addition.
Hello, you know I’m not too sure.I wish it was a Parklane, it’s setup more in that style, but the floor tom looks like an Astoria model due to only having 2 knobbys. It came with my kit as a complete 4 piece with matching snare. Originally the snare and floor did not come as part of kit, they have black interiors and have earlier 4 digit serials while the kick and tom are grey inside.The Astoria model had 2 knobbys for the snare and a splash or cymbal arm. I just mount the 13” tom I.e Parklane style sans snare. Parklane and Showcase model had more knobbys and at least a double knobby mount towards the top of floor.But you know, it’s weird, as the Astoria came out later certainly during script era and my floor is an Eagle Badge, I wish I really knew.But in short, that is how the kit gets separated from its conventional style as the snare is a full range Holiday with no collet for the mount. I just went with Astoria name as that was the configuration based on the knobbys for mounting.
Ah, I see. So, technically, you would need to have a snare drum that had the collet mount and an extra knobby on the floor tom for it to be a Parklane, right? And you would technically need a snare drum that had the collect mount for either model, right? I mean, according to the pictures in the old literature.
I think that if you had the collet mount snare, then you could set it up to be the Astoria (sans the tom). And if you had the collect mount snare and an extra knobby on the floor tom, then you could set it up to be a Parklane (with the tom). My eyes are just too old to read the small print in the literature so I could be very wrong.
In any case, your drums are really cool! Thanks for posting the eye candy!
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