13 Facts About Rogers Drums

Rogers Drums company was started in 1849 by James Rogers Drums, an Irish immigrant from Dublin to the United States.

Rogers Drums started crafting drum heads in Brewster's Station, New York.

James Rogers' grandson Cleveland S Rogers began to manufacture the first "Rogers" drums at the Farmingdale tannery in the 1930s.

The first Rogers drums were assembled from shells and hardware of other manufacturers but mounted with Rogers heads.

In 1955, Cleveland Rogers Drums, who had no heirs, sold the Rogers Drums drum company to Henry Grossman.

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Grossman moved the company to Covington, Ohio, and under his leadership, Rogers Drums moved to the forefront of American drum making for the next decade and a half.

Rogers Drums was bought in 1966 by CBS Musical Instruments, which had acquired in 1965 Fender Guitars and Rhodes Pianos.

From 1964 until 1975, Rogers Drums shells were 5-ply construction of alternating plies of maple and birch wood with reinforcement rings.

Shortly after being purchased by CBS in 1966, Rogers drums moved its production in 1969 from Ohio to a Fullerton, CA factory complex, where the American Fender Guitars were produced.

Between 1984 and 1998, the Rogers name was owned by Island Music, who manufactured low-cost copies of the famous Big R Rogers drums outside the US.

In 1998, the Rogers Drums name was acquired by the Brook Mays Music Company of Dallas, Texas.

In 2013, the rights to Rogers drums were acquired by Joseph Chen, then the president of Dixon Drums.

In 2017, Rogers was revived as a manufacturer of high-end handcrafted snare drums, utilizing many of the familiar hardware designs from the 1950s and 1960s.