The online hang for all things Sonor
https://drumandstage.com/Forum/
Rob passed away on October 6th 2012. That’s wonderful you guys were so close. He was also a pro body builder as well. The one thin about Rob is a ton of people knew him and he will always be remembered. I tried to locate the RMMP message board and I could not find it on Facebook. I will try again.
Chris
Hazelwood7 wrote: Sat Dec 13, 2025 4:53 pmI should also come clean and tell everyone that I am the now the proud owner of a beech designer kit. It’s a 10 12 14 16 22 and a 6.5x 14 snare in fake bubimga wood. The date on the shells are December 2023
Designer from 2023 ?
Sorry, that was a typo by 20 years. The shells are stamped 12/2003.
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Hazelwood7 wrote: Sun Dec 14, 2025 9:47 amRob passed away on October 6th 2012. That’s wonderful you guys were so close. He was also a pro body builder as well. The one thin about Rob is a ton of people knew him and he will always be remembered. I tried to locate the RMMP message board and I could not find it on Facebook. I will try again.
Chris
Thanks for remembering the date. I thought it was before that actually, so I'm a bit surprised.
Here's a link to the RMMP group on Facebook:
Hazelwood7 wrote: Sat Dec 13, 2025 11:09 amScott_M,
I wish I had access to the old Sonor Museum forum to see what people were saying around that 2003 timeline about those drums but here’s what I think happened. The only price list/catalog to have it show up was the HSS Price list from July 2003. In April 2004 the option was gone and replaced by the Vintage Maole shells. So if he take it by the price list this was a USA only option and only for 9 months. There is no mention of it in any German price lists or catalogs at that time. I don’t know how long in that 9 month period you could actually order them. So they would be very rare. There may be a few more it there because they had the maple light badge on them. Some people could have sold it over the years and thought they were maple and mislabeled because I have never seen a beech designer set ever come up for sale.
I remember in the early 2000’s on RMMP Usenet it was discussed with Sonor and Sonor said they would never make beech shells again. The forum members kept bugging them. I think they caved and made it available. I check out the archives and that was what they did. Although no further posts about it when they were released about it. I can’t check the Sonor Museum posts or the old version of the drum forum message board to see what people were saying but I think it was mention by Rev on the Sonor Museum board.
Chris
Remind me what RMMP stands for?
rec.music.makers.percussion