Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012

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Musical Instruments: July 2011–June 2012


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Snare drum (Black Elite Standard model)

1925–28
Leedy Manufacturing Company
Overall: 12.7 x 35.6 cm (5 x 14 in.)
Gold-plated brass

Classification: Musical instruments

Object Place: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Accession number: 2011.1982

Description: 5 x 14 8-lug

Provenance/Ownership History: By 1928, Charles Briggs Lowd, Waltham, Massachusetts; 1936, by inheritance to his daughter, Isabel A. Lowd Avignor; about 1963, by inheritance to her daughter, Isabel L. Howe; 2011, gift of Howe to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 16, 2011)

Gift of I. L. Howe in memory of Charles Briggs Lowd and his children, Elinor, Isabel, and John