Thanks everyone! It's good to know. I appreciate all of you sharing your knowledge with me!

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Most of the old Roger's drum sets are made in the USA and some are not ..

Hell rogers drum set is actually a good set Only depends what the wood is made out of ..I seen the in the range of the price of $450 and up ..but the hardware is close to the old pearl drums hardware ..same the of the old CB100's

I don't know if i am making any sence at all on here ...All i do know Rogers drums are great to play on .sounds good ......

I have heard that those Island Music era drums had hardware that was pretty bad.

You would have thought that they would have just shipped the original Rogers tooling over seas to the new manufacturer but apparently new tooling was made for at least the lugs and probably other parts or maybe the tooling the received was old and worn out.

The shells were not very good either. Certainly not up to Rogers standards.

They have the Rogers name on them but there is nothing about them that would make them sound like USA Rogers.

Please pardon me if it annoys anyone for expounding on a subject that I know from personal involvement. Sometimes I just can't resist chiming in.D' Drummer

Bill Crowden, who owned Drums Limited in Chicago, and bought out his former employer, Frank's Drum Shop, came out of retirement to work for Brook Mays. Bill, along with a man named Jim Rosenthal, worked on reviving the Rogers drum name. They started out with stencil brand sets ranging from cheap to medium priced along with school snare drum/orchestra bell sets. At the time that Brook Mays began to fail financially, Bill and Jim had been successful with getting classic beavertail lugs and some other pieces of the original Rogers hardware accurately reproduced offshore. Bill would not confirm it, but I think that Swivo reproductions would have been in the works. I saw and played on some prototypes of Dynasonics and other reproductions. Brook Mays had just come out with an upper line of maple shell drums that reminded me of upper line Mapex with some nods to classic Rogers (the lugs and strainer). Then, the doo doo hit the proverbial fan. The company had suddenly grown from a dozen stores in Texas to over 60 stores scattered over many states. Sudden expansion like that alone might have killed the company a la what Krispy Kreme did to itself. But, add to that, the owner of the company made a comment to the music trade magazines that lacked the three words "in my opinion" concerning "musical instrument shaped objects" of inferior quality being sold under the First Act brand name. The resultant law suit nailed the coffin lid for Brook Mays. They were my account since 1977 when I was a manufacturer's rep. I retired at the end of 2007.

Its a damn sad thing what happened to Brook Mays.

there would be real rogers drums on the market today had that not happened.