Chandler Peabody Drum with Upside Down Eagle

Dave Pavlick (davesdrumzzz@juno.com) of Woodbury, Connecticut wrote to us recently:

Attached are photos of the Chandler & Peabody drum that I acquired this summer.  It is 16" diameter X 13 1/2" deep with matching red hoops, 1-1/2" wide.  Both hoops have the same nail pattern.
 

The tack pattern looks the same as the  other two Chandler & Peabody drums that are on your website.

[See War of 1812 Chandler Field Snare Drum (Possibly) and A Civil War drum carried by Orestes H. Porter, Company I, 21st Maine Volunteer Infantry.  Also, see WAR OF 1812 American Military Drum CHANDLER AND PEABODY 1807-1814 and 1861 Haynes Drum Stolen on eBay for $78].

 

The painted Eagle has age, but was probably done later (100 years ago?). The Eagle is painted upside down on the drum body, obviously by someone that knew nothing about drums.

There was enough of the label left showing Peabody and [S]alem to attribute this drum to Chandler & Peabody.

Jim Ellis and his crew at Cooperman Drums, figured out that Chandler & Peabody made the drum, and did the new heads, rope, and ears on it.

When I found the drum, it had a Ludwig calf head, a pigskin head, and was missing ears.

The Eagle is ... painted upside down.

If you are looking at the photo of the Eagle side of the drum, the snare beds will be under the top head of the drum.

In other words, to play the drum with the  snares at the bottom of the
drum, the Eagle would be upside down.

As soon as Jim Ellis disassembled the drum at Cooperman's and we saw where the snare beds were on the drum body we knew the Eagle was painted upside down.

I decided to keep the Eagle on the drum, because the patina of the drum was so nice, I didn't want to destroy it by removing the Eagle.

Thank you for your informative website.

Dave.