Military Drum
date: label: Date made
content: 1808-1817
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This drum was made by an unknown maker in Europe, around 1808-1817. It has a brass shell with a cast coat of arms with a crown and the initials “FWR,” and skin heads. The wood hoops are painted red and white and drilled with 10 holes each for rope which is laced through leather ears, used to tighten the hoops. The shell is stamped below the vent hole:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>GABLER<br>IN<br>BERLIN</p>
label: Description
content: <p>(And on what appears to be a snare mechanism):</p>
label: Description
content: <p>2A<br>2B 14 LR4</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The attribution date for the drum is subject to study.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Percussion
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content: Military
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Charles Bremner Hogg Jackson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0399.0027
label: accession number
content: 1980.0399
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0399.0027
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drum
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)