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Cymbal Collection

Background imageCymbal Collection: Two kittens with a drumkit

Two kittens with a drumkit
Unusual Friends - two kittens with a drumkit. 1950s

Background imageCymbal Collection: Wonders of the cinema organ by G. H. Davis

Wonders of the cinema organ by G. H. Davis
Noises played for films: wonders of the cinema organ. Thunder, shots and tom-toms controlled by an organist: a film-theatre organ that creates sound effects. Date: 1929

Background imageCymbal Collection: Bacchic rites of Thalysia

Bacchic rites of Thalysia
Two ministers of Bacchus with sacrificial offerings of leaves, cembalo (cymbal) and patera (bowl). Perhaps the festival of Thalysia

Background imageCymbal Collection: Girl Kindergarten Orchestra - Musical group

Girl Kindergarten Orchestra - Musical group Date: circa 1910s

Background imageCymbal Collection: Three frogs playing music on an April Fool postcard

Three frogs playing music on an April Fool postcard
Three frogs playing musical instruments on a French April Fool postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Background imageCymbal Collection: Susi - with drum and cymbal

Susi - with drum and cymbal. 1950s

Background imageCymbal Collection: Antique painting found in ruins of Herculaneum

Antique painting found in ruins of Herculaneum
Reproduction of an antique painting of a young man found in the ruins of Herculaneum, the ancient Roman town buried under solidified mud after the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. 1779

Background imageCymbal Collection: Japanese circa 1800, musicians, seller of whale

Japanese circa 1800, musicians, seller of whale meat, and sailor.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Background imageCymbal Collection: Band of the 77th Regiment, India

Band of the 77th Regiment, India. Date: circa 1860s

Background imageCymbal Collection: Testing Sound Waves

Testing Sound Waves
Ray Kulz blows his trumpet, Jimmy Noel strums his guitar and George Macdonald strikes the cymbal into an OSCILLOSCOPE to see if sound waves vary. Very much so! Date: 1930s

Background imageCymbal Collection: Group of Egyptian Whirling Derivishes

Group of Egyptian Whirling Derivishes
Group Egyptian Dervishes. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Background imageCymbal Collection: Chums 7 Bramusas at Poole s

Chums 7 Bramusas at Poole s
Young girl in a sailor suit wearing the cap of the SS Bramusas holding a beater and cymbal and sat beside a large bass drum


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