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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY KETTLEDRUMS

Features:
- Hand-hammered copper bowls
- Finest quality calfskin heads
- Resonance funnel (Schalltrichter) built into interior of bowl
- Tuning done with tuning key
- Diameters of 20", 22", 24" (51, 56, 61cm)

The dimensions of kettledrums varied widely during the Baroque and Classical periods (roughly, 1600-1830), ranging in size from 18"(46 cm) to 26"(66 cm).
Baroque kettledrums from Harms Historical Percussion
Set of Baroque kettledrums
delivered to the University of Pittsburgh, November, 1998.

Kettledrum with tuning key, wood mallets, and wooden tripod stands from Harms Historical Percussion

 

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(NOTE: Be sure to check this site for article on "Eighteenth Century Kettledrums" which will incorporate material from the publication "The Virtuosos of Versailles".)
 

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