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Kailis: Tossa puhuttiin tomeista. Rogersien tarkkaa iän määrittelyä on pidetty hyvin hankalana ja heittoja sarjanumeroissa voi olla paljonkin. Mutta päätät sen syntymäpäivän ja eikun bileet pystyyn =D
Tutkin noita sarjanumeroita ja voit juhlia 35 v.-synttäreitä jo tänä vuonna. PALJON ONNEEE AAVAAN!!!
 
Voisitko täsmentää mikä meni vikaan tossa mun tulkinnassa? Tarkoittaako se, että kun puhutaan tomeista, niin se ei päde virveleiden suhteen? Niistäkin tuossa puhutaan. Tossa koko höskä kopsattuna. Ensimmäiset kolme riviä on otsikko.
 
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The Dyna-Sonic Rogers Snare Drum 1961-1984
 
1975-84 Big R Period Chrome Over Brass 5x14, 6.5x14
1981-1984 XP10 Ten Ply All Maple 5x14, 6.5x14, 8x14
 
Relatively few construction changes to the Dyna-Sonic are evident during the Big R period, not nearly as many as the period from 1961-75. There was the Gretsch shell, the seven line, and in 1968, the five line. Changes in the frame, changes from B&B lugs, changes in the first generation beavertail lug, the second generation beavertail, hoop anomalies, shine of the chrome, to name a few.
 
During the Big R period, there are only a few major changes that can be observed in the COB Dyna-Sonic. Big R changes included badge relocation, a brief period of shells with no dampener, the introduction of the XP 10, all maple ten ply keller shelled Dyna-Sonics and SuperTens, a different hoop profile in 1982. C-Clip Lugs, the late Fullerton Big R style snare frame, and the Big R style Dyna-Sonic bottom hoop introduced on late issue Fullerton Oval Badge Drums are changes that were already in place when the Big R badge was introduced in 1975. Many people routinely associate these three principle pieces of hardware with Big R drums, but they were Oval Badge period changes.
 
Dyna-Sonic Late 1975-76 In late 1975 going into 1976, Oval Badge shell stock was used with the new Big R Badge covering the screw holes for the Oval Badge. These unique shells range until the high 14,000 serial range of Big R badges. I have seen some above this number, not many, with the highest as number D22641. Again, reminding you that these five digit numbers are only found on five ply drums with speckled gray interiors. This is the First Generation Transition Era Big R Dyna-Sonic.
 
1975 drums would, by nature of the badge introduction date on the trademark registry, be limited to very low badge numbers, (D0xxxx).
 
1976 Overlapping five digit numbers with six digit numbers beginning with D60xxxx. I believe the 60xxxx numbers did not advance very high in the range.
Beginning with Dyna-Sonic snare drums in the high 14,000 range and continuing well into the 40,xxx range, a shell is used that has no dampener. These are all five digit drums, and you will see them with five ply shelled sets bearing five digit serial numbers. These no dampener drums are unique to 1975/6 and are Second Generation Transition Period drums. I have observed a number of drums on e-bay lately, five digit numbers, no dampener, Big R Badge in the new location. All parts are, with a few replacement exceptions, early Big R construction. These drums are most definitely 1976, and the first true Big R Dyna-Sonics.
 
Initially, a drum came up for auction with no dampener and I thought, Cool, custom order, no dampener. However, as I observed more drums showing the same characteristic, all within the same five digit serial range, I began to see this as less of an anomaly and more as a manufacturing blip, possibly caused by a mistake in the initial Big R shell order. I sat on this theory for quite a while before publishing in a post on the Rogers Owners Forum. I knew it was a bit radical and did not fit with previously held beliefs regarding the Big R period. The more drums I observed, the more certain I became that this no dampener shell was a unique early Big R period oddity. No drums that I have observed in the above mentioned serial range have a dampener, with the Big R badge in the new location. What solidly clinched this for me was the observation of a double bass set, five ply, gray speckled interior, with all drums in five digit ranges from the 15K into the 30K ranges. This set also had its original Dyna-Sonic (five digit, no dampener) within the serial ranges represented by the overall set.
 
1977: Six digit numbers beginning with D70xxxx- lower D72xxxx range. I have Floor Tom D724xxx with Swivo Cast mounts, D729xxx with Memrilock.
 
1978: Six digit numbers running from approximately upper D725xxx-D74xxxx. Also 1978 seen the introduction of Memrilock Floor Tom Legs and Mounts replacing the Fullerton Cast Swivo. This could have been a late 1977 change over. See below on 1979 numbers.
 
Note: These series of numbers do not run the full gamete of numbers in each range. So I have not seen numbers past the D60xxxx or D75xxxx. Cannot explain the methodology here. I just see what I see.
 
1979: XP8 Eight Ply All Maple. Movement of the Badge from left or right of the mount to a 180 degree position opposite the mount. I still need to see some original owner sets and snares to more accurately determine numbering. Some early drums did have serial numbers. These are clearly visible in the initial XP8 Catalog. I do not know what the range is on these, other than possibly starting in the mid D95xxxx range. I have seen reports of drums in this badge range. I have a D955545 badge that was attached to a drum, but I have no idea what drum, it is possible it was a late Tobacco Sunburst five ply 8x12 I used as a donor drum for shell stock, (the drum was beyond restoration when I got it) or it could have been on an early XP8. This series of numbers could be on very late five ply drums, and very early eight ply drums. Unused tags have sold on Ebay in the D96xxxx range.
 
1980: A special thanks to Tom Taylor, who solidly established the No Serial Badge as being 1980/81, that fairly well explains why we've never seen six digit numbers beginning with an 8. If there are, I haven't seen them.
 
Later 1981/82 saw the reintroduction of six digit serial numbered badges with RD numbered badges. Numbers in RD95xxxx and up into RD96xxxx, D97xxxx, and RD98xxxx have been observed. All on XP8 drums. Use of the RD in the badge series made these serials unique in relation to late five ply and early XP8 issue drums. The next series of numbers drop the RD and use only a D in front of the number. This range, beginning with D100,000, only appear on XP8 drums. It was not used on five ply drums.
 
1982, early 1983: numbers roll over into a six digit beginning with D100,000. 1983: Mid 84 sees numbers ending with the close of production somewhere around D125,000.