Hey Jonnistix!! Welcome to Rogers Time. I think its about an early 80s.

80 or 81? I am not the expert but I remember reading this somewhere.

Great snare. There are a few different styles of frame. I think you would need the latest one.

Cheers,Ed

Thanks, Ed! BTW, here is a pic midway through cleaning. Notice tje condition of the shell! Man, it was dirty, but there only a couple of minor scratches, not eve visible to the camera.

I,ll look forward to your comments on the sound compared to those nice heavy MIJ metal snares you have.The Dyna is one of the most respected drums ever made and i know first hand some of those MIJ,S sound surprisingly good.

An AMERICAN MADE drum!!!!!!!

I have 4 of them, and they are quite the drum when done right. There is a set-up guide on this forum. I want to say that I read an article that they were shipped with Diplomat heads on top and bottom.

I have different heads on all 4 of mine and I've found the best to be a good old Ambassador coated for the batter and a Diplomat clear for bottom.

Paragraph on the "BIG-R" badge in Rob Cook's "The Rogers Book" indicates the badges went into use in 1976 and showed up with numbers, without numbers, with USA and even without USA and any combination of that.

Another interesting note was the serial numbers started over again on the same number with each roll of foil badges so dating by the number is not possible on this badge.

The late 80's drums were the Island Music imports.. no numbers, no U.S.A.

The Rogers Book, p. 123, Cook, Rebeats Publications 1999.

I wrote this set-up guide/tutorial for the Dynasonic snare drum as it can be a "quirky" drum to get "right", so to speak. I'll supply the link to the guide... have a look. This will get your drum in the right area with the final tuning/tensioning being completely yours and individual. Enjoy!! http://www.vintagedrumguide.com/rogers_dynasonic_set_up2.html

Tommyp

Congrats!

The nearest thing I have to that is a Super Ten. It's a sweet COS beast!

I hate to admit it, but I've never played a Dyna that I remember.

Keep us in the loop for the restoration!

Badges 76-79, under 800,000. First year drums had five digit serials below 100,000, Six digit numbers seem to begin abovew 500,000.

Badges 79-81, No serial, made in USA

Badges 81/2- end of production 84/5, starting in the 900,000 and going up to around 125,000.

Badges without USA are from the Island Music period, and are junk. The lugs on the dynasonic are a different size, longer. The lugs on the drums are different...... fatter. The badge is more square and does not have USA.

The whole serial numbers starting over thing is a myth.

They just werent very consecutive all the time. But serials are more help at IDing date than not. Especially when taking into account the minute changes that took place during big R production.

You have a 1980/early 81 drum.