Kreher Snare Drum: Museum Object and Cultural History
Kreher Snare Drum: date made: 1915. unspecified: U.S. War Department. Object Name: drum.
The object in the museum catalogue
This snare drum was made by Clemens Kreher in Marienberg, Germany, in 1915. It has a brass shell, red and white painted metal hoops, 5 metal tensioning rods attached through metal loops in the hoops, skin heads, and a gut snare. There is a maker’s stamp on the shell:
As indicated in the original U. S. National Museum accession card, this drum was “captured by American Expeditionary Forces in France during the World War, 1918.”
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1915
- unspecified: U.S. War Department
- Object Name: drum
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Physical Description: wood (overall material)
- Physical Description: paint (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 in x 19 in x 24 in; 25.4 cm x 48.26 cm x 60.96 cm
- place made: Germany: Rhineland Palatinate, Marienberg
- ID Number: MI.029941
- catalog number: 29941
- accession number: 65026
- Credit Line: Transfer from War Department, Ordnance Department
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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