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View of Tulloch Castle, Scotland, with pipersView of Tulloch Castle in the town of Dingwall in the Highlands of Scotland, at the time of a royal wedding between Dom (Prince) Miguel of Braganza (1878-1923), Duke de Viseu
Argyll and Sutherland HighlandersBandsman, Piper and Drummer of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Date: circa 1908
Poster, Trinidad and Tobago Tourist Board, designed by H Woolhiser. circa 1950s
Various musical instruments
Steady the Drums and Fifes, 1811. Colour photolithograph after Lady Butler, published 1960 (c). Associated with 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot, Battle of Albuera, 1811
Sri Lanka - Geta Beraya and Udekkiya playersTraditional Sri Lankna drums and drummers. The standing player is holding a hill country drum called the Geta Beraya (a drum with a knot)
Southwark Fair / HogarthSouthwark Fair Various performers compete to attract the publics attention
Two kittens with a drumkitUnusual Friends - two kittens with a drumkit. 1950s
A group of Cameron HighlandersA group of Queens Own Cameron Highlanders
Grenadier Guards at St Michaels MountThe 2nd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards visit St Michaels Mount, West Cornwall
George V presenting colours to Irish GuardsKing George V presenting new colours to the Irish Guards at Buckingham Palace
Persian musiciansThree seated Persian musicians, playing a hand drum, what looks like a daf and a kamanche. A tonbak, or goblet drum, lies discarded on the ground. Date: 1870s
The Dixieland Jazz Band, c. 1919 Date: c.1919
Meat Loaf in concert, Penwith Rock Festival, CornwallMeat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday, b. Marvin Lee Aday, 1947), American rock musician and actor, performing on stage with a female singer at the Penwith Rock Festival in 1983. Date: 1983
London Trade Card - William Bull, Musical Instruments - trumpets, kettledrums, French horns, speaking trumpets, hearing horns for deaf people, powder flasks
Australian Ladies Pipe Band - World Tour - souvenir of the visit of the band under Drum-Major William Darwin F.R.G.S. and Pipe-Major Jessie Young
Lord of Misrule C1600THE LORD OF MISRULE leading the villagers in a festive procession
The Dave Clark Five, English pop group Date: 1964
Devil Dancers, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)Devil Dancers of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), with drummers. Date: circa 1890s
A group of Persian musiciansA group of four Persian musicians playing their instruments. 1818
Birthday card, The Beatles caricature - Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Date: circa 1964
Boys Band at Hollybrook Cottage Homes, SouthamptonThe boys band at Hollybrook cottage homes at Shirley Warren, Southampton. The homes were opened in 1911 by the Southampton Union to accommodate pauper children away from the workhouse
Dancing Bears - Constantinople, TurkeyTwo attendants/musicians with their dancing bears, performing on their hind legs in Constantinople, Turkey
Siege of a medieval castle. Knights in armour, archers and soldiers on ladders storm a castle defended by soldiers throwing rocks and boiling oil
Greetings card, Jazz drummer on timpani (kettle drums). 20th century
Music cover, Our Love Affair, Mickey Rooney & Judy GarlandMusic cover, Our Love Affair, words and music by Arthur Freed and Roger Edens, from the MGM film Strike Up The Band, starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. 1940
Monkeys playing music
Types of drums
Toy Theatre, Pollocks New Stage Orchestra. 19th century
Musicians and Dancer - Southern Algeria. Date: circa 1909
Cartoon, At the camp of Maurice de Saxe (1745). Elegant ladies of the theatre step out of a carriage and are kissed on the hand by the French general and Marshal of France
Peninsular War, six French drums, spoils of warPeninsular War, six French drums and a silver-mounted drum major's staff, spoils of war taken by the 2nd Battalion of the 34th Regiment (Border Regiment)
Colours, Drums and Goat Mascot of Royal Welsh FusiliersColours, Drums and Goat Mascot of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers Date: 1915
La Batterie Des Hommes Sans PeurThis illustration shows an array of French military men preparing for battle behind a bank, with grooves slotted out for cannon barrels, cannonballs scatter the ground as a man sits beside a sign
Army Cadet Band on Parade Date: 1907
Army Kettledrums, 1st Life Guards Date: 1894
The Kinks, British pop groupThe Kinks (Pete Quaife, Dave Davies, Mick Avory and Ray Davies), British pop group Date: 1964
Shadow Show - Silhouette Cut-Outs 1881A fold-out page from The Boy's Own Paper for a shadow show stand with various silhouettes surrounding, to be cut-out, to entertain children for Christmas. Date: 1881
Original Artwork - Fantasy scene with dancing elephantOriginal Artwork - Fantasy scene with five young Indian boys playing music to a crazy-looking dancing elephant! Date: circa 1937
India, musicians and drums, with cow and goatVintage 19th century photograph: India, musicians and drums, with cow and goat, with orante coverings
Procession / ceremony, with musicians, India, c. 1880 sProcession/ceremony, with musicians, India, c.1880 s
A band, most of whom are wearing disguise of heavy eyebrows and moustaches, presumably a gimmick during a performance, or just for the hell of it
Two Sufi Dervish devotees at prayerTwo Dervish penitents performing prayer rituals in a Dervish lodge. One with his hair tied to the ceiling with a cord, and another with band around hands and knees holding prayer beads
Costumes of the Gabr disciples, Armenians, KurdsCostumes of the Gabr disciples of Zoroastrianism, Armenians, Kurds. Abiti di Guebri, degli Armeni de Curdi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giovanni Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes
Tibetan Music at the Scala TheatreTibetan musicians at the Scala Theatre, London, perform playing their traditional instruments in connection with the opening of Captain John Noels film of the Everest expedition. Date: 1924
Mandinka people dancing to drums in a festivalMandinka (Mandingo) people dancing to drums in a festival in Dramanet, Kingdom of Galam (upper Senegal River). From Mungo Parks Travels in the Interior of Africa
Bell tents, colours stand and camp kitchen18th century military tents: called bell-tents 1, 2, pole to support arms 3, stand for drums, colours and officers espontons 4
Nautch or Ramjani girls dancing to music from kuplyans or bin, dhol drums, tabla, and other string and percussion instruments
Chinese musical instruments: dagu drums 1, 2, 3, bianzhong 4, 7, bells 5, 6, and guzheng zither 9, 10. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrrarios Costumes Antique
The despair of the sun-worshipping Peruvian Incas during a lunar eclipse. The people bang drums and tambourines, whip dogs and scream to prevent the eclipse
Festival in honour of the Serpent God (centered around Ouidah, Benin). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient
Minister fanning sacred flame with flabellumFestival of Isis, with minister fanning the sacred flame with flabellum and second minister with sword or scepter. Devotees playing sistrum, horns and drums
Festival of Isis, with devotees praying and making offerings, playing sistrum, horns and drums, and sacred ibis. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum
The Douglas Room, Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland, with a display of helmets and drums. Date: circa 1905
Von Hindenburgh and Gessler, GermanyThe German President, Field-Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, and Minister of Defence, Otto Gessler, at an event in Germany. 1925
R A Lister Military Band, Roman Baths, Bath. Date: 1935
America - Burgoyne Surrenders At SaratogaThe Surrender Of British Lieutenant General John Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York 1777
Tatler cover Party Time 1961Front cover of The Tatler from December 1961 featuring a woman utterly absorbed in playing the drums. Date: 1961
Musician with large drum, Tahiti, French Polynesia. He is wearing traditional native costume, while the drum is a modern French military instrument. Date: 1922
Drummers of the King of Buntuku, Gold Coast, West AfricaDrummers of the King of Buntuku, Gold Coast (then part of the British Empire), West Africa. Each chief had his own drum call or motto. 1922
Musicians of Bornu, Yola Province, Nigeria, West AfricaMusicians of Bornu, Yola Province, northern Nigeria, West Africa. One blows a trumpet while the other accompanies him on a drum. 1922
Feast day near Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, South America -- indigenous people in large feathered headdresses, carrying large drums. Date: 1922
The origin of Hunting the Wren - The Bird awakens the sleeping Danes. 1850
Military band of cats on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s
Birthday card, Hope your birthdays a Smash Hit! 20th century
Johann Strauss conducting an orchestra. circa 1898
View of an Arras street with ruined buildings, WW1View of an Arras street with ruined buildings, First World War. In the foreground on the right are a few band members with their music instruments, mostly drums. circa 1915-1917
78 rpm Cover Sleeve, Embassy Records, Music for You. 1950s
London Fire Brigade band, group photo, with brass, woodwind and percussion instruments. Date: circa 1920s
Euterpean Band, Westerville, Ohio, USAMembers of the Euterpean Band (nicknamed the Rube Band of Otterbein), Westerville, Ohio, USA. Date: 1907
Daily Chronicle newspaper 1900Making curved plates for offset printing, on cylinders. Date: 1900
15TH C ARAB WARRIORSArab warriors from around the 15th century on horseback with banners, trumpets and drums. Date: 15th century
Bleaching cottonUsing wash-wheels for dyeing and bleaching cotton Date: 1830s
RACIAL /s AFRICA / BARI-NEGWar dance of the Bari-Neger of Mozambique, south-east Africa: the musicians work the warriors up into a frenzy of blood lust Date: 1890S
Drummer, - 1867D was a Drummer Who played with a grace... Date: 1867
REYKJAVIK STORE 1876From drums to rum, you may buy just about anything in this general store in Reykjavik, Iceland Date: 1876
FRENCH MINERS STRIKEStriking French miners process through the Pas de Calais. Date: 1906
HOGARTH SOUTHWARK FAIRSouthwark Fair Various performers compete to attract the publics attention. Date: 1733
MEDICINE MAN & DANCERS MEDICINE MAN & DANCERSCentral African medicine man with apparatus and attendant musicians and dancers
Drummer-boy of the British Army Date: circa 1850
HOGARTH / INDUSTRY / IDLE 66. The industrious prentice out of his time and married to his masters daughter Date: 1747
Harry Yould and his Blackpool Banjoliers Banjo Orchestra. His wife is shown here playing the piano! Date: circa 1950s
A rice raft - west of Georgetown, South Carolina, USAWW1 era - For God and Kaiser - A young officer in the German Military - 7th Company of the Guards Fusilier Regiment. Date: circa 1914
Girl Kindergarten Orchestra - Musical group Date: circa 1910s
