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Tom-tom.
Technical description: Largest of three tom-toms on console; double headed; wooden frame and counter-hoops; skin heads; upper head has counter-hoop to which skin is attached and screwed rod tensioning with six T-handle screws; lower head has skin nailed directly to frame. Adapted to fit onto dance drummer's console. Repair History: Evidence of earlier attachment, now removed, at opposite side to existing mounting boss.
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Probably 1930s - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Probably Britain - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:211.212.11-92 Individual double-skin cylindrical drums, one skin used for playing with membrane lapped onto a hoop
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:211.212.11-92 Individual double-skin cylindrical drums, one skin used for playing with membrane lapped onto a hoop
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/15659