Gong Collection

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

Chinese musical instruments
A selection of Chinese musical instruments, including a bell(1), gong, (2), cymbals(4), a guqin or seven-stringed zither(7), a pipa or four-stringed lute (8), Yueqin or moon-shaped lute(11)

Prussian Iron Cross
Two examples of the Prussian decoration of the Iron Cross. One from 1813 and on from 1870

Chinese string and percussion instruments
Chinese musical instruments: two-string erhu 1, 2, three-string erhu 3, four-string pipa 4, 5, gong 6, horns and percussion, yunluo cloud gong 11, and paiban 12

Music cover, Piano Selection, film version of The Mikado
Music cover, Piano Selection, arranged by Geoffrey Toye, film version of The Mikado by Ws Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan Date: 1939

Silhouette, The Dinner Gong. late 19th century

Plow, vase, money and musical instruments of the Kingdom of Siam, Thailand. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Antoni Carboni from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Chinese men playing the game of go. A musician with gong, man with pigtail, and peasant in straw hat play the board game go, while a farmer with hoe and musician with flute watch

Chinese monks in front of a pagoda. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843

Ancient Chinese weapons and standards, including banner 3, 7, flag 33, pennant 9, musket 3, cannon 2, tent 36, drum 33 and gong 5

Chinese toy seller and boy riding a pasteboard
Chinese itinerant toy seller and boy riding a pasteboard horse, Qing Dynasty. The toy man plays a gong and his basket includes toy soldiers, bow and arrow, masks, feathers, etc

An Indian Priest
A British officer, who had spent time in Phoogee Kyounges (Monasteries) dressed as an Indian priest or Buddhist monk at the Indian Exhibition in 1895. Date: 1895

Christmas present - gong and matchholder 1927
Everybodies must have! Unusual looking duck gong and matcherholder insect, available from Marshall and Snelgrove s. 1927

Blighty Guest House
A group posing outside a guest house going by the name of Blighty around what looks to be a dinner gong emblazoned with the name. Date: 1930s

Myanmar - Performing yein pwe - Dance and Music
Myanmar - Performing yein pwe - traditional National dance which features singing and dancing performed by an ensemble / chorus. Date: circa 1908

Advert for Gong soup 1916
Advertisement for Gong soups, For men at the front and in training. Well-known and poplar product during the First World War, which could be parcelled from home for the soldiers at the front

A Kabyle musician with her Tam-Tam. Algeria, North Africa
A female Kabyle musician sits cross-legged holding her Tam-Tam (a type of gong). The Kabyle are a Berber ethnic group originating from Kabilya in Northern Algeria. Date: circa 1910s

Han Wen Gong Temple - Hebei, Changli County, China. Date: circa 1910s

Myanmar - Performing zat pwe - Dance and Music
Performing zat pwe the traditional Burmese performance form that combines elements of music, dance, and theatre. Date: circa 1908

Traditional Chinese Musical troupe / Group / Band, with a variety of traditional Chinese Musical Instruments including: Sanxian, Gong, Cymbals drums, horns and a bell. Date: circa 1910s

Myanmar - Burmese Traditional Village Dancing and Music / Musicians - playing such instruments as the curved Burmese Xylophone (Pattala) and Khong Vong gong chimes. Date: circa 1907

Music / China / Gong / 1870
Gong in a Chinese temple Date: circa 1870

Flutes, fifes, flageolet, gongs and tabours.. English flute (1), German flute (2), improved German flute with additional keys (3), hautboys or oboes (4, 5), B fife (6), C fife (7)

Its coming! Gas attack 1917
The alert has just been given, by means of a shell-going that a German gas wave has been let loose, and is approaching the trenches

Japanese musical instruments - the hing kou
A group of Japanese musicans playing various instruments, including the hing kou (a drum, also known as the po-fou) and the sheng(a wind instrument)

Regional music: Japanese gong and cymbals, c. 1870
Two Japanese bonzes or priests striking a gong and playing on cymbals, c.1870. Date: c. 1870

Burmese musicians, 1872
Burmese musicians make music indoors, 1872. A kong thom(or Khong Yai)can be seen to the left. Date: 1872

Nikko, Japan - Interior Mausoleum of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
Nikko, Japan - The interior of the Mausoleum of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu (Nikko Tosho-gu). Date: circa 1910s

Khong Yai - Harmonicons (Khong Vong gong chimes) of wood or metal form the basis of bands of Siam (Thailand), Burma (Myanmar) and the Indian Archipelago

Laos - The Kings Orchestra and Dancers
laos - The Kings Orchestra and Dancers at Luang Prabang, the capital of Luang Prabang Province. A UNESCO World Heritage Site

Guard Room - Prospect Camp, Bermuda
HMD Bermuda (Her/His Majestys Dockyard) - the principal base of the Royal Navy in the Western Atlantic between American independence and the Cold War. The Guard Room - Prospect Camp Date: circa 1910s

Cakestands Etc
No tea-table is complete without a cake-stand on which to stand the cake(s) : you will also need a gong to summon your guests, or failing that, a bell... Date: 1930

War trophies -- German gas alarm bells, WW1
War trophies captured by the Allies during the First World War -- five alarm bells used to warn of gas attacks, taken from captured or abandoned German trenches. Date: 1914-1918

Albert Medal 1877
ALBERT MEDAL: Introduced on 7th March 1866. A Royal Warrant of 1867 created two classes of medal & in 1877 was altered to allow the saving of life on land to be eligible. Date: 1877

Traditional Indian band
Indian beat combo with diminutive lead singer

There was an old man with a gong
This photograph is reminiscent of the Edward Lear nonsense poem. An old man with a long beard sits inside a small hut with a gong hanging from the door

Lear / Nonsense / Gong
There was an Old Man with a gong, who bumped at it all day long; But they called out, O law! you re a horrid old bore! so they smashed that Old Man with a gong

Chinese Ferryman
A Chinese ferryman aboard his vessel, with a large mounted gong and hammer to alert passengers to his imminent departure or perhaps to other boats to warn of his passage

Chinese Eclipse Ceremony
Chinese ceremonies during the eclipse of the sun involving music and reverence

Indian Clepsydra
An ancient clepsydra from Southern India : the bowl has a small hole in it, and gradually fills, at which point the watching boy strikes a gong

Order of Indian Empire
ORDER OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE (CIE) Here we see the ornamental badge for men who are members of this order which was newly created in 1877

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