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Snare drum
Alternate name:Side drum
Maker: Christen Fjerestad
Date: 1793
Place Made:Leikanger, Norway, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedSigned: Aar 1793 er denne Trumbe Jort Christen Fjerestad
Translation by Mats Krouthen, Ringve Museum, Trondheim: This drum was made in 1793 by Christen Fjerestad
Translation by Mats Krouthen, Ringve Museum, Trondheim: This drum was made in 1793 by Christen Fjerestad
MarkingsNumerals on the inside of each stave of the drum 1 - 22
DescriptionWood shell (Scots pine) and rims, painted red. Rims each with nine drilled holes through which the rope passes. Rope tension with five extant leather tugs. Metal screw strainer.
DimensionsShell height (with rims): approximately 362 mm (14-1/8 in)
Head diameter: approximately 404 mm (15-15/16 in)
Head diameter: approximately 404 mm (15-15/16 in)
ProvenancePurchased in 2004 from Warren J. Kooiker, Madison, South Dakota. Owned for generations by the Fjerestad family and, likely, brought to South Dakota in the late 1880s or early 1890s by Andrew Pedersson Fjerestad. Sold at an estate sale about 2000.
Terms
Credit Line: Board of Trustees, 2004
Not on view
Published ReferencesJayson Dobney, “18th Century Norwegian Drum by Christen Fjerestad Discovered”, National Music Museum Newsletter, Vol. 31, No. 4 (November 2004), pp 1-3.
Object number: 10632