Custom Mapex bass drum owned by Will Calhoun: Museum Object and Cultural History
Custom Mapex bass drum owned by Will Calhoun: Date: 2005. Manufactured by: Mapex, Taiwanese, founded 1989. Manufactured by: Remo, Inc., American, founded 1957.
The object in the museum catalogue
A custom made Mapex Orion bass drum played by Will Calhoun in performances with the band Living Colour. The shell is highly polished silver colored metal with an overlay of etched steel featuring bands of Egyptian art designs of human figures in profile and hieroglyphs. The drum has a black plastic rim and gold-plated hardware for the drum heads. The drum has two foldable, adjustable metal stands with rubber soles and a mount on the top side to hold the tom drum assembly. Just in front of the mount is an engraved silver plaque reading [MAPEX / Orion Series / MADE IN CHINA / 002864]. The front head is a clear plastic Remo Powerstroke 3 drumhead with the logo in black pigment and two white Remo kick pads adhered to it. The back head is a black tinted Mapex drum head with the logo in white lettering and an enforced circular hole to the right.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 2005
- Manufactured by: Mapex, Taiwanese, founded 1989
- Manufactured by: Remo, Inc., American, founded 1957
- Used by: Will Calhoun, American, born 1964
- Subject of: Living Colour, American, founded 1984
- Type: bass drums
- Medium: metal, thermoplastic polyester, rubber
- Dimensions: 29 × 30 × 22 in. (73.7 × 76.2 × 55.9 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Popular music
- Topic: Rock and roll (Music)
- Object number: 2015.14.1
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Will Calhoun
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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