Rope Tension Drum - early 19th cent.

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Detail - bearing edge
Detail - gut snares and hoop
Detail - vertical seam

Brass shell, rope-tension field drum

French / early 19th century
 
According to oral tradition, captured from Napoleonic troops by Tyrolean rebels in 1809.
 
shell diameter: +- 38 cm  (14,9 in)
shell depth:      +- 32 cm  (12,6 in)
 
 
 
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