Bass Drum
date: label: Date made
content: 1878 - 1882
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This drum was made by an unknown maker and unknown provenance, from 1878 to 1882, and sold by the J. Howard Foote Company in New York and Chicago. It is a bass drum made of bird’s-eye maple wood, colored dark red, with light ash hoops.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>John Howard Foote (1833-1896) was a musical instrument dealer with shops in New York City and Chicago. This instrument listed in an 1880 J. Howard Foote catalog, sold as a Prussian model Tenor or Snare drum (#7056), for $20.40.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Howard Foote
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.055733
label: accession number
content: 11535
label: catalog number
content: 55733
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drum
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: birdseye maple (shell material)
label: Physical Description
content: skin, calf (head material)
label: Physical Description
content: skin, sheep (head material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (outer hoops material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (hoops material)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (lacing cord material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (ears material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/4 in x 32 in; 41.275 cm x 81.28 cm