"Military drum of the third regiment of the Voltigeurs..." Topic
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Tango01 | 08 Feb 2014 3:52 p.m. PST |
of the Imperial Guard, 1804-15. link Beautiful!. Amicalement Armand |
Green Tiger | 09 Feb 2014 3:07 a.m. PST |
Well that puts the cat among the pigeons! Do we know if this is a rank and file drum or as band instrument? |
Brian Rix | 09 Feb 2014 9:26 a.m. PST |
Good find, Imperial bees in lines up the side must remember that for my 18mm ABs :). Voltigeurs had drums, the corps of drums would be drawn from the companies and I don't think there were separate band drummers. Col John Elting writes about the use of drums by voltigiers and how unsatisfactory the horns were in the field which were to replace them. The drums came back. The band would have some percussion instruments, chapeau chinoise, cymbals, snare drum, bass drum but this looks like a regular drum. This seems to be an earlier period drum since I think the later ones the body was brass not wood. Interested in any other comments about this instrument, I like Napoleonic bands. I think there is a real dearth of manufacturers making them in all scales, I want to see miniature kaiserlichs crossing the table to Falco's "Rock me Amadeus", surely predates the Napoleonic era
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Garde de Paris | 09 Feb 2014 11:52 a.m. PST |
I always thought that French infantry drums of the Napoleonic Wars had "bodies" of brass, usually unpainted, undecorated, with light blue rims. The cords were also more substantial than shown here. Back in the 1970' my wife bought an all wood end table structured as a drum of the French Regiment Soissonais in the era of the American Revolution. She later bought a drum table for the other end of the sofa, representing one of the US infantry regiments of the War of 1812. They both look like the "real thing" until you sit down and see how the tops are wood covered with cream-colored vinyl. I wonder it this might be some kind of decorative reproduction. |
Brian Rix | 09 Feb 2014 2:44 p.m. PST |
I agree that the typical Napoleonic drum had a brass body but early drums were wood and there a few things that suggest this is the real deal. The appearance, the cords and etc seem ok to me, the drum is said to come from the Berlin Historical Museum (good provenance to be described as the real thing)and I've checked out a plate that Patrice Courcelle did some time ago in a reprint book. He depicts 1er Voltigeurs with two musicians, one a bass drum and the other a snare drum, definitely band instruments. They are painted wooden drums, mid blue with an Imperial eagle on the body with draped tricolor. They seem broadly similar to this drum; perhaps a band drum after all? (the plate is no 78, "le 1er Regiment de la Garde a Krasnoie). |
Tango01 | 09 Feb 2014 8:57 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed the drumm boys. Amicalement Armand |
dibble | 09 Feb 2014 9:30 p.m. PST |
Side drum that was carried by the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards at Waterloo.
Side drum used by the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment of Foot (Black Watch) 1815
Paul :) |
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