Flute Collection (page 5)

Old Mother Hubbard: Dancing, reading news, wearing clothes

Empty allotments / W H Robinson
On the allotment when we don t have to grow our own cabbages This post war couple use theirs for flute practice and sewing

Orchestra members at a festival, Haimhausen, Bavaria, German
Members of an orchestra wearing historical uniforms during a rococo festival in Haimhausen, just north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Ney player - Salonica - Mevlevi Dervish
Ney player - Salonica. The Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia). This Dervish order was founded in memory of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273) - mystic and poet

Lady Water Carriers, Port Said Egypt

Lear / Nonsense / Flute
There was an Old Man with a flute, a sarpint ran into his boot; But he played day and night, till the sarpint took flight, and avoided that man with a flute

Young Egyptian Arab girl water carriers
Two young Egyptian Arab girl water carriers stand behind a seated young boy playing his flute

Chelsea Pensioners Relaxing, 1882
Engraving showing a Chelsea Pensioner, of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, playing The British Grenadier on his flute, to his two comrades, 1888

On Board a Thames River Steamer, 1874
Engraving showing the passenger deck of a Thames River Steamer, with various passengers seated on benches and two musicians, playing the flute and harp

A Piper and Flautist of France
French territorial army soldiers playing the ancient, national instruments of the Breton race - the Biniou, a species of flute, and the Bombarde, a form of bag-pipes

Fishing & Flute-Playing
A shepherd plays a flute on the banks of a river while his companion fishes (illustration to the fable The Fish & the Shepherd Flute-Player )

16th Century Musicians 2
A drummer performs with players of various types of wind instruments

Muse / Euterpe
the Muse of Music, Particularly the Flute

Hopi Flute Boy
A flute-player of the Hopi flute society, (Arizona) who plays an important role in tribal life as the central figure in the traditional rain-making ceremonies

Hiawatha / Beggars Dance
Pau-Puk Keewis dances the Beggars Dance, to the accompaniment of a merry flute flute playing crowd, at Hiawathas wedding

Costume / Etruria
A man and woman of Etruria (Ancient Rome): he plays a double flute, she carries a dish of fruit

German Musicians 1520
A group of German musicians perform on a wide variety of instruments to provide music for dancers : lute, bagpipes, clarinet, trombone, flute, drum, monochord are featured

Roman Musical Trio
Three Romans make music - one playing the double-pipe or flute, another a lyre-like instrument plucked with a plectrum, the third may be a singer or simply a teacher

Learning the Flute
A music student is instructed by his teacher in the art of playing the double pipe, an ancestor of the flute

Two 16th Century Players
Two English performers - one on the flute, his companion on the viol

Greece / Costume
Various Ancient Greek costumes; left to right - One female flute player and the rest are womens everyday costumes

Apollo Flays Marsyas
Lyre-player Apollo is challenged to a musical duel by flute-player Marsyas; when he wins (by a nasty trick) he flays his presumptuous rival alive

French Street Music
Musicians in the streets of Paris - one plays a viol, one a corne-muse (bagpipes), the third a flute

Vaucansons Automata
JACQUES DE VAUCANSON French inventor, notably of automata; here, he astonishes his servant with a mechanical flute-player Date: 1709 - 1782

Japanese Man with Flute
Sourimono Japanese man playing a flute

Street Musicians / C16Th
Two Street musicians strike up a tune in this very fine German engraving

Polyhymnia, Euterpe
Polyhymnia muse of mime and Euterpe muse of flute-playing

Falstaff and Flute at the tavern

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