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Objekt 20

Tenor Drum (Scotland)

Object description

Muir Wood & Co. (dates unknown)

Edinburgh, c. 1800

MADE & SOLD BY MUIR WOOD & CO / MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS/ TO HIS MAJESTY /_SO UTH STREET EDINBURGH/ (printed paper, inside shell); coat-of-arms (painting, shell); FESTINA LENTE / DIEUPOUR NOUS / (inscription, shell)

wood painted; animal skin (skin); hemp

rope; leather rope in ten courses

H. 46 cm; 0 41 cm (skin)

Bequest Dr. h.c. Wilhelm Bernoulli-Preiswerk

Inv. 1980.2817.

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