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Dance band percussion kit

Dance band percussion kit owned by James Blades. Comprising four temple blocks, cowbell and four brackets for unidentified instruments. All attached to a folding black cloth-covered baseboard. The temple blocks are painted in a red and black lacquer in the form of stylised fish. The cowbell is made of folded and rivetted mild steel sheet and is marked in ink, 'F + F#'. A paper label on a bracket of unknown purpose is incribed in red ink, 'USED BY / T.B. AND J.B. / WITH C. CUNZ / THE CASANI CLUB / LONDON W / BBC RADIO ETC / 1932 ON'.

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  • Repository:Royal Academy of Music Museum