I remember most making the Rainbow jingle plastic shell headless tambourines. I still see them for sale and they are as good as sounding drums as the 'major' brands. The weak points in my opinion were the snare strainer (hard to adjust just right) and the strange spring loaded bass drum spurs, but they held up well. I remember they were very good sounding drums. You will have to check with Don Corder on the details of that. We made wooden drums with both Jasper and Keller shells. We opened a new retail music store with a drum factory in the back on Triana Boulevard. Corder had no intention of manufacturing fiberglass shells as far as I remember. The HIC building was a large former cotton mill. The molds and most of the parts bought from Fibes were destroyed/damaged in a fire at the Huntsville Industrial Center ('HIC') building across the street from the retail store where they were first stored. I saw the earlier comment about the fiberglass molds: 'When they folded I think the people that run Fibes now bought back the molds' and have an opinion on that. He also had a retail music store at the time. His 1969 patent (3435723) idea was for colored inserts to be placed in the clear shells. 1969 - CBS moves entire Rogers operation to Fullerton, California 1969 - George H. He started out in the drum business as the Custom Clear Drum Company only doing acrylic shells. comes into being in Farmingdale, NY through the efforts of Bob Grauso and John Morena.

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