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Help! with ?Bower? snare drum

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I was wondering if anyone could tell me about this drum. It seems to be steel or tin with what used to be some type of laquered finish and the marker is a diamond shaped stainless steel piece that has "BOWER" written accross the middle. It also has three patent dates on the marker: "PAT DEC 30 1917" "PAT.JAN.8/18" & "PAT.AUG.14.17". Any help at all on a manufacture date or the value of the drum would be greatly apprectiated.

If you can view the attachment, there is a picture of the marker, but you can't read the patents.

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Posted on 15 years ago
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You might want to check out this site:

http://www.pas.org/Museum/tour/0504.cfm.

Posted on 15 years ago
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Thanks OldSchool! It did help.

Posted on 15 years ago
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You're very welcome.

Perhaps you could post an actual pic of the drum!

Posted on 15 years ago
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Hi Sean and company,

Very cool! Bower drums are unique instruments. I just wrote an article about Bower and these drums for my website. Check it out: http://leevinson.com/bower.html I looked into getting it published in NSMD but turns out David Heulsing beat me to it so look for his Bower article in the next issue.

Please let me know if you are interested in selling the drum. I'll make you a deal!

-Lee

Posted on 15 years ago
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Sorry it's taken me so long to respond. Here's a pic of the drum and yes, I am interested in selling it.

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Posted on 15 years ago
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Great article! By the way, the drum has two different snare attachments, one like in the drawing in the article and another that attaches with string.

Posted on 15 years ago
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