Members rockbeat Posted April 19, 2012 Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 I ran across an article discussing Slingerland drums and it said the company is still in existance with a manufacturing facility in Conway, Arkansas. All of this was news to me. I knew the company had been acquired by Gibson at one point but assumed they had quit making them since I had not seen nor heard of any new Slingerland kits in sometime. I even found a Gibson/Slingerland website that showed apparently new Slingerland kits, yet I am unable to find a single distributor for the drums or any other info at all. This has just really peaked my curiosity. Does anyone know anything else about this? Are the drums still being manufactured or not? The kits on the site looked really nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zildjian@consol Posted April 19, 2012 Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 I knew about Gibson owning the rights to Slingerland but nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rockbeat Posted April 19, 2012 Author Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 I even sent an email to Gibson through the "contact us" link inquiring about info on the Slingerland drums but haven't received a reply. This is a link to the website:http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Divisions/Slingerland/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SYMBOLIC Posted April 19, 2012 Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 I remember there being rumors a couple of years ago that Gibson was going to do something with the Slingerland name, but nothing specific or since then. I hope they don't do what Yammy did with the Rogers name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nickg Posted April 20, 2012 Members Share Posted April 20, 2012 any new kits today with the Slingerland name are WAY overpriced, no matter what company owns them. and that is unfortunate. no doubt, today Slingerlands have nothing to do with those kits from the "heyday" or anything since then, i'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drummer5359 Posted April 20, 2012 Members Share Posted April 20, 2012 Gibson aquired Slingerland in the 1990's, I'm thinking that it was 1994 or so. Production began in Nashville and continued there for a few years. I own a single ply Radio King snare with die cast hoops built during this period, great drum. Produuction was moved to Conway Arkansas somewhere around the late 1990's, early 2000's. The product was very good, dealer support wasn't the best and they were not priced as competitively as they could have been. Production halted in 2008 or 2009. The websites are still up oddly enough. If they were to go back into production I'd go take a long hard look at them. Here is a pic of the 1997 Radio King snare that I mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xtranoise Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 A couple years or so ago I was on a business trip in Birmingham, AL and saw a Slingerland kit on display at a store. Seems it had the Arkansas badge.I was scratching my head.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Living Dead Drummer Posted April 23, 2012 Members Share Posted April 23, 2012 Gibson has owned the Slingerland brand for a lOOONG time now. All the photos on the website are the same ones from a Slingerland catalog I had back in the late 90's. About 6-7 years ago they tried to re-introduce the brand. I remember seeing a kit set up at NAMM, and Carmine Appice had a signature kit. He did a clinic at a store near my house, and part of the deal for him doing the clinic is that the store had to be a Slingerland/Gibson dealer. They got in two of the new kits, one being Carmine's signature kit. As of two years ago, those kits were still sitting in that store... I don't think Gibson has done anything with the brand since that time, and it doesn't seem like they plan on it any time soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members floydfrancisco Posted January 19, 2020 Members Share Posted January 19, 2020 slingerland is owned by drum work shop dw, they should make then in 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted January 20, 2020 Members Share Posted January 20, 2020 Cool; another name I won't pay list for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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