Kreher Snare Drum
date: label: date made
content: 1915
name: label: unspecified
content: U.S. War Department
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This snare drum was made by Clemens Kreher in Marienberg, Germany, in 1915. It has a brass shell, red and white painted metal hoops, 5 metal tensioning rods attached through metal loops in the hoops, skin heads, and a gut snare. There is a maker’s stamp on the shell:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Clemens Kreher<br>Tromelfabrik<br>Marienberg I.S.<br>1915</p>
label: Description
content: <p>As indicated in the original U. S. National Museum accession card, this drum was “captured by American Expeditionary Forces in France during the World War, 1918.”</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Rhineland Palatinate, Marienberg
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Percussion
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from War Department, Ordnance Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.029941
label: catalog number
content: 29941
label: accession number
content: 65026
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drum
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 19 in x 24 in; 25.4 cm x 48.26 cm x 60.96 cm