Piano Collection (page 2)

NADIA-JULIETTE BOULANGER French music teacher and conductor Nadia Boulanger, with her own teacher, Raoul Pugno in 1910 Date: 1887 - 1979

Cavalier King Charles spaniel at the piano
Unusual Friends - Cavalier King Charles spaniel at the piano. 1950s

Animals and birds singing round a piano on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Pantomime artist Will Evans with his children
Will Evans (1866 -1931) was an eccentric comedian who performed in pantomime from a young age, and appeared on the music halls in the 1890s

Music at home - little girl at the piano
Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Sir William and Lady Maria Somerville, plays the piano on tiptoe. Date: 1866

George Grossmith / 1895
GEORGE GROSSMITH (SNR) English actor, associated with the Gilbert & Sullivan operas

Frederic Chopin / Krzesz
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician the last notes

Norah Blaney and Gwen Farrar
The revue artists and frequent double-act, Norah Blaney (at the piano) and her droll friend Gwen Farrar, performing in Punch-bowl at the Duke of Yorks Theatre in 1925. Date: 1925

Music cover, The Walnut Tree, by E W Diver, Old English Dance. Date: 1913

Domestic interior with a mother and child seated at a piano
A domestic interior with a mother and child seated at a piano, oil on canvas, possibly by Charles West Cope, c.1860, in a gilt frame with moulded decoration and a circular aperture. Date: c.1860

Advert for Pianola Piano 1913
Social gathering around Pianola Piano, pre-war ladies and gentlemen in their evening attire being entertained by the piano. Date: 1913

Susi - at the piano, finding the music rather overwhelming. 1950s

Beethoven / Home in Vienna
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN His home in Vienna - the room in which he composed his ninth symphony Date: 1770 - 1827

Leaflet, London Sketch Club Smoker, November 1929
Leaflet advertising a London Sketch Club Smoker (smoking party), taking place on 15 November 1929 at a venue in Marylebone Road, London NW1, with pictures from 6.30

FALLA, Manuel de (1876-1946). Spanish composer and pianist. Works for piano solo and for piano and voice. Edited in Madrid

Music cover, Forest Fantasies, nine miniatures for piano by Walter Carroll. 1916

Massenet / Sem / Celebrites
JULES MASSENET French composer Date: 1842 - 1912

Lilian Norton Nordica - American opera singer
Lilian Norton Nordica (1857-1914), American opera singer (soprano) at the piano. Date: 1890

Benjamin Britten, Maurice Gendron
Rehearsal for Piano Trios Concert in the Aldeburgh Parish Church (24 June), Aldeburgh Festival 1963. Benjamin Britten (piano)

DANHAUSER, Joseph (1805-1845)

Music at home - sketches from life of amateur musicians, 189
Music at home - sketches from life of amateur musicians by T.W Couldery. Date: 1894

Leslie Hutchinson at the piano at the Carlton
Illustration of Leslie Hutch Hutchinson (1900 - 1969), born in Grenada and one of the biggest cabaret stars of the 1920s and 30s

Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860 - 1941). Polish pianist, composer and statesman

Dame Myra Hess DBE, born Julia Myra Hess (1890-1965), British pianist, celebrated for organising lunchtime concerts at the National Gallery during World War II

Pianola
Advertisement for the Pianola, the automatic piano-player from the Orchestrelle Company of Regent Street

The forerunner of the modern type writer- a piano like machi
Photograph of a typewriter from 1851. This typewriter resembled a toy piano with black and white keys

Paderewski / Petit J 1919
IGNACY JAN PADEREWSKI Polish pianist, composer and statesman

Piano De Silex - 1
Honore Baudres geological piano uses a series of selected stones, each of which emits a different note when struck

WAGNER / LIEBIG / 3 / 1858
RICHARD WAGNER German composer in 1858, at the Wesendonck villa, Zurich

PIANO-TYPE FIRE ENGINE
Piano type manual fire-engine, named after a resemblance of the shape of the bodywork to that instrument. Nozzles and branch-pipes were carried on brackets on the main frame

Western passengers on a Nile steamer
A group of western passengers on a Nile steamer, listening to a young woman play the piano

WW2 - Wartime shoot for Harper's Bazaar - Worth
WW2 - Wartime shoot for Harper's Bazaar July/August 1944 issue - Elegant Black evening dress by Worth - American GI soldier - shoot date: April 26, 1944 (on location not studio)

Shoot for Vanity Fair - Black Dress, lace neckline - taken at 6 Hamilton Place, Mayfair, London - October 29, 1959 Date: 1959

George Grossmith, comedian, playing piano (2 of 4) Date: 1890s

George Grossmith, comedian, playing piano (3 of 4) Date: 1890s

George Grossmith, comedian, playing piano (1 of 4) Date: 1890s

George Grossmith, comedian, four views playing piano Date: 1890s

Julie Andrews with mother and step-father, Starlight Roof
Julie Andrews, aged 12, photographed at home with her mother Barbara at the piano and her step-father, at the time she was appearing in Starlight Roof at the London Hippodrome

An Interview with Consul the Chimpanzee
Sketches of Consul, the celebrity chimpanzee known as the man monkey appearing at the Hippodrome in 1903. Charles Sykes, reporting for The Bystanders very first issue

Music cover, Annie Laurie or Royal Scots Quadrilles, with a view of Dundee, Scotland. Introducing the Popular Airs of Annie Laurie (Campbells Are Coming, Highland Laddie, Logie O Buchan)

Publicity card, Stephenson Bros, Superior Furniture Cream
Publicity card, Stephenson Bros, Bradford, Superior Furniture Cream and Metal Paste, making life easier for the servants. circa 1890

WW2 - Comic Postcard, Home Front - Intruder Raid - A little girl (with ginger pigtails) is alarmed at the sight of a small brown mouse and has leaped up onto the piano stool. Date: 1944

Peggy Piano Desmond - BBC Queen of the Ivories
Peggy Piano Desmond (1913-1977) - The BBCs Queen of the Ivories Date: circa 1943

Barrel organ and monkey

Playing the piano in an Edwardian parlour - early 1900s

Mother and child in the parlour at the piano

Employees performing Rhythmic Dancing - Bournville Works
Cadbury's Bournville Works - Birmingham - Employees performing Rhythmic Dancing. Date: circa 1920s

John Broadwood and Sons 8 HP Milnes Daimler van, early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

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