LDICY · CN57
Military side drum
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Description
Military side drum with emblazoned metal shell and wooden counterhoops, 16-inch skin heads, rope-tensioned with British style white leather braces, and drag rope. The counterhoops have 9 drilled holes through which the tensioning rope passes. J-hook screw style snare strainer with gut snares. The batter head has 3 metal feet match-painted with the counterhoop decoration. The 14th (Middlesex) (Inns of Court) Rifle Volunteers was the name that the Inns of Court Regiment took in 1889, when the unit became a battalion of the Rifle Brigade. In 1908, it became the Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps.