Drumstick used by Art Blakey: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A drumstick with a tapered wood tip. The stick is wood and cylindrical with one rounded end and one tapered end with a small cone-shaped tip. There are small gouges on the tapered area of the stick, and the stick is cracked and missing material from two areas on the shaft.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1947-1990
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Used by: Art Blakey, American, 1919 - 1990
• Type: drumsticks
• Medium: wood
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 15 7/8 × 5/8 × 5/8 in. (40.3 × 1.6 × 1.6 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Object number: 2012.36.7
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Peter Bradley
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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