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Couple Dancing / PianoA couple dancing to popular songs of the day such as Schade, dass man per Telefon nicht kussen kann ( What a shame you can t kiss over the phone )
Advertisement for Steinway Pianos - no drawing room of distinction has the ideally correct note unless it contains one. circa 1930s
Frederic Chopin / EtudeFREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician composing his C minor Etude
Frederic Chopin / NocturneFREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician composing his Nocturne opus 9 number 2 Date: 1810 - 1849
Jascha Heifetz / Punch 20JASCHA HEIFETZ American violinist
Chopin Concert RadziwillFREDERIC CHOPIN Prince Antoni Radziwill, a long admirer of Chopins talents invites him to play at the palace in Berlin
Frederic Chopin / PreludesFREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician composing his preludes
Angels of Mons, cover design for piano musicAngels of Mons (Reve Mystique), cover design for solo piano music by Sydney C Baldock, inspired by rumours of angelic intervention in the fighting (Battle of Mons, Belgium)
Erik Satie / RenaudinERIK SATIE French composer at the piano
CAT PIANOVariations on a catatonic scale : the keys are linked to the cats tails, and when depressed the resulting miaows create a concatenation of feline counterpoint
George Gershwin / MusicianGEORGE GERSHWIN American composer
Ballet dancers rehearsing CoppeliaBallet dancers from the French Academie de Musique et de Danse rehearsing Coppelia (music by Delibes). Mademoiselle Carlotta Zambelli, Italian dancer and teacher, is in pink on the left
Mrs Mills, celebrity pianist, with dogUnusual Friends - Mrs Mills, celebrity pianist, with dog. 1960s
Various musical instruments
Johannes Brahms, German composer and musician. Seen here in profile, playing a grand piano
Self-Help in War Time by Heath Robinson Building a BungalowNo III - Building a bungalow: Now, having made a good start with your music-room, place your piano in position. A rather back to front way of house construction from the crazy mind of William Heath
Eugene Ysaye - Belgian ViolinistEugene Ysaye (1858-1931) - Belgian Violinist Date: circa 1903
Piano playingA small boy sits at a piano and practises his scales conscientiously
They Laughed when IThey laughed when I sat down at the piano... (and then, of course, he amazed them all with his virtuosity !)
How Pianola Works 1912How the player-piano works - air passes through the holes in the piano-roll and acts on the bellows mechanism, causing a hammer to strike a key
Margate Pier - Jessie Wildon and her Bijou OrchestraMargate Pier - Jessie Wildon (Mrs Fred Wildon - pictured on left with cello) and her Bijou Orchestra - a musical quintet. The Wildon family ran orchestras of various types during the summer in
Photos on piano, Lloyd Georges farm at Churt, SurreyPhotos on the piano, Lloyd Georges farm at Churt, Surrey. On the back row, l-r: Eleftherios Venizelos, Lloyd George with Prince of Wales (future Edward VIII), General Foch
Dachshund and PianoA musical dachshund plays a tune on the piano
Wa Mozart SilhouetteWOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Silhouette of the Austrian composer at the piano
Js Bach ConductsJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH German organist and composer conducts the Whitsunday Cantata Date: 1685 - 1750
The Windmill Theatre, 1940Eric Woodburn, seated at the piano, rehearses along with the girls of the Revudeville company at the Windmill Theatre, London. 1940
Yehudi Menuhin and Benjamin Britten RehearsingYehudi Menuhin and Benjamin Britten rehearsing violin and piano in the Jubilee Hall for the Piano Trios recital in Aldeburgh Parish Church on 24 June 1963. Date: 1963
Benjamin Britten, Yehudi MenuhinRehearsal for Piano Trios Concert in the Aldeburgh Parish Church (24 June), Aldeburgh Festival 1963. Benjamin Britten (piano)
Puccini Leans on PianoGIACOMO PUCCINI leans on the piano, a cigarette dangling from the side of his mouth
Advertisement for the Brinsmead grand pianoAn advertisement for the Brinsmead grand piano, the best that British craftsmanship can produce, with a pure singing tone and beauty of finish. Payment by instalments can be arranged... Date: 1913
Piano teacher and pupil, 1915Teacher: What does ff mean? Child(learning military march): Fump! Fump! Date: 1915
The Dixieland Jazz Band, c. 1919 Date: c.1919
Racial / French AccordeonA typical French street or cafe musician playing the one-step for accordion
Rubinstein Plays PianoANTON RUBINSTEIN over-enthusiastic pianist plays a tune. So caught up in his performance he is lifted bodily from the stool, long hair & coat-tails flying
Puccini Mascagni FrancheGIACOMO PUCCINI with Mascagni (left) and Franchetti (centre) at Milan in 1893
Johannes Brahms, German composer and musician, seen here as a young man, sitting at a grand piano
Beethoven / Bonn BirthplceLUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN His birthplace at 515 Bonngasse, Bonn The Relic Room Date: 1770 - 1827
Phonograph RecordingRecording a man playing the piano using Edisons improved model phonograph
Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - playing the piano. circa 1910s
Advert for Harrods piano sale 1919Selection of bargain pianos, prices start at 148 gns for a Cramer Baby Grand in rosewood to a Chappell upright Boudoir Grand at 64 gns. 1919
Advertisement for Bechstein Hall, Brook Street, LondonAdvertisement for the Bechstein Hall, Brook Street, London, in a building containing a concert hall, practice rooms, offices and showroom, built in 1929 by Bechstein, the German piano manufacturers
Belfast riots, July 1920A double page spread from the Illustrated London News, reporting on rioting in Belfast from 20th to 23rd July 1920. 18 people were killed, and 200 wounded during the disturbances
Nude model on a break plays a pianoThe Model rests A nude model takes a break from posing for an artist and plays a little ditty on the Baby Grand Piano just off his studio. Date: circa 1914
Playing a piano amid the destruction - The BlitzOne of the men working on debris clearance in London succeeded in wresting a tune from this battered piano - circa late 1940
Frederic Chopin / DeathbedFREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician on his deathbed
Cat playing the piano on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
NADIA-JULIETTE BOULANGER French music teacher and conductor Nadia Boulanger, with her own teacher, Raoul Pugno in 1910 Date: 1887 - 1979