Older Radio Kings are obsessively collected by vintage drum enthusiasts. Between 19, Radio Kings were reintroduced. These drums were introduced in 1936–37, and remained Slingerland's flagship snare drums and drum sets until 1957, when the Radio King model briefly disappeared from the product line.
1937 SLINGERLAND SONGSTER SERIES
Slingerland's most famous product line is the Radio King series of drums. On Novemit was announced that DW Drums had taken over ownership of the Slingerland brand from Gibson. This included drums produced in Nashville and in Taiwan. In 2018, much if not all of the remaining warehouse stock of Slingerland drums, including bare shells, hardware and complete drum sets, were sold as a result of Gibson's bankruptcy auction to a private individual who proceeded to liquidate the remaining stock via eBay. In 1998, Slingerland released a model based on its Gene Krupa signature drum kit. Gibson revived the brand, but had limited success, due to premium pricing and poor economic conditions. Slingerland changed ownership multiple times until it was acquired from Gretsch (part of the Gibson Guitar Corporation by then) in 1994. After introducing the Magnum series in 1982, Slingerland lost its footing, and the company folded in 1986. The company remained in the Slingerland family until 1970, but continued to be a prominent drum manufacturer throughout the 1970s. Slingerland ceased making electric instruments in 1940 in order to exclusively focus on producing percussion instruments. The guitar's pickup includes individual string magnets as well as a large horseshoe magnet. The Songster electric guitar, featured in a 1939 company catalog, pre-dates Les Paul's "log" guitar and is probably the earliest Spanish-style solid-body electric guitar model. Īlthough the Slingerland company was best known as a drum kit manufacturer, it also made guitars in the 1930s. The company's manufacturing plant was later moved from Chicago proper to Niles, a suburb in Cook County, Illinois. After H.H.'s death from a stroke, the company was run by his wife, Nona, and one of their children, Henry Jr. established an extensive dealer network throughout the U.S., the then-territory of Hawaii (in the early 1930s) and China. Louie Bellson playing his Slingerland kit in 1980Ī resourceful and energetic businessman, H.H.
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