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Side drum.
Brass shell; single-sided screw tensioners; assembled with brass wing-nuts of tensioners on lower (snare) end of drum. Snare strainer is a simple screw mechanism with the wing-nut screw above the rim of the top (batter) head. This wing-nut is the same design as the tensioner nuts. 15-inch heads. Repair History: Wire snares a replacement, originals were probably gut/wire wound silk.
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Probably 1920s - 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/15700