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Objekt 3

Rope-tensioned Drum (canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden)

Object description

Maker unknown

Origin unknown, dated 1778

TV= Usser (bear) R (=Rhoden] F (painting, black/white, upper hoop);

1778 (punched out, snare strainer)

Brass; wood, painted; animal skin (skin); hemp rope; leather; gut snare; iron

Rope in eight courses; double gut snare

H. 30 cm; 0 37 cm (skin)

Bequest Dr. h.c. Wilhelm Bernoulli-Preiswerk

lnv. 1980.2152.

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