Instrument Collection (page 9)

Pilot Talks To Tower Date: 1947

Monsieur de La Live de Jully by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) - painting on canvas. Date: 1759

Nurses in an operating theatre
Three nurses laughing in an empty operating theatre. The nurse at centre wears glasses and holds a surgical instrument. There is an autoclave on the floor next to a radiator on their left

Clown with banjo on a Victorian scrap
Clown with a banjo on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Lena (1899). Sardanas dancing with the cobla in a village s
Carles Bosch de la Trinxeria (1831-1897). Spanish writer and naturalist. Lena (1899). Sardanas dancing with the cobla in a village square. Engraving of the Chapter VI

New Year card in the shape of a banjo. Date: circa 1890s

Boeing 247D DZ203
Boeing 247D, DZ203, was used for instrument and automatic landing systems research by the RAF during WW2

Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (1874 - 1937), Irish-Italian inventor and electrical engineer. Marconi photographed with his wireless invention, telegraphy instrument. Date: 1901

International Exhibition - John Brinsmead & Sons pianos 1885 International
International Exhibition of Inventions, held in South Kensington, showing John Brinsmead & Sons pianoforters. Date: 1885

Greenwich Observatory - Great Equatorial 1861
The Great Equatorial telescope in the dome, Greenwich Observatory. Date: 1861

Drunkards cloak
Man wearing a barrel with openings for head, arms and feet, covering his body, walked up and down the streets to punishment. Date: 15th century

Advert for Masons & Hamlins cabinet organs 1877 Advert for Masons & Hamlins
Advertisement for Masons & Hamlins, available with hire and purchase. Date: 1877

PIANOLA ADVERT 1
Everyone admires the Duo-Art Pianola; such an instrument as this leaves prejudice defenceless Date: 1916

A VIOLINIST PAUSES
She pauses for a few bars... Date: 1887

CHINESE LADY MUSICIAN 1861
She is playing a delicate guitar-like instrument. Date: 1861

ERICSSON TABLE PHONE - 2
A table instrument by the Ericsson Company of Stockholm, Sweden. The handle on the side is turned when making a call, to alert the exchange. Date: circa 1905

SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY
The instrument room of the Submarine Telegraph Company, Cornhill, London Date: 1851

TICKER-TAPE MACHINE
Transmitter of the Exchange Companys apparatus, and the Receiving Instrument whereby stockbrokers can obtain the latest information about the stock market, by telegraph. Date: 1893

Cartoon, music of Richard Wagner -- young Mr Softly has something important to say, so Miss Ethel asks Lucy to play some Wagner, which ought to prevent her from overhearing! Date: 1895

Traditional female accomplishments
Three young women demonstrating traditional female accomplishments -- reading, embroidery, and playing the piano. Date: 1858

Scene from Shakespeares Antony and Cleopatra
A scene from Shakespeares Roman play, Antony and Cleopatra, showing Cleopatra standing (right), with one of her servants seated (left) playing a stringed instrument

Concert Mecanique, invented by M Richard
A Concert Mecanique invented by Monsieur Richard and demonstrated in the Royal Library. It consists of three automata, playing keyboard, violin and cello

Carnival in a Spanish town
People celebrating with a carnival in the streets of a Spanish town. Date: 1870

Measuring equipment, kitchen scales, letter balance and other items for weighing Date: circa 1900

Saint Helena of Constantinople
Saint Helena, also known as Saint Helen, Helena Augusta or Helena of Constantinople. She was the consort of Emperor Constantius, and according to tradition she found the relics of the True Cross

Instrument in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Date: circa 1750

Sketches at the Albert Palace, Battersea showing the Indian village with various traditional arts and crafts on view including snake charming, pottery, nautch dancing and juggling. Date: 1885

Silver-mounted Stuart period Trumpet - dated 1651. Date: 1651

Steam train on Algiers to Oran route, Algeria
Steam train on the Algiers to Oran route, Algeria, North Africa. Date: circa 1900

A young Jordanian man plays a rababah, single-string musical instrument with a leather body. He wears an Arab headdress, a keffiyeh or kufiya Date: circa 1995

Father and son in Bedouin tent, Syria
A Bedhouin man sits with his young son on a carpet inside their tent. They wear traditional Arab clothes and the man pokes the fire

Nomad musician, Jaipur
Nomadic musician squats at a ceramics shop in Jaipur, India. Over his shoulder he carries an Ektara, a single string gourd musical instrument

Crumhorn musical instrument
Musician and historical instrument maker David Lewin plays a crumhorn. First published in The Times Date: 1987

Russia - Blind Gusli Player
Russia - A blind Gusli player. The Gusli is the oldest East Slavic multi-string plucked instrument, belonging to the zither family, with roots in Veliky Novgorod, a city in western Russian

Comic Musician from Istanbul, Turkey, playing a Setar
Comical Singer and Musician from Istanbul, Turkey, playing a Setar. A Setar, Sehtar or Setouyeh is an ancient and gnostic instrument usually played at the gathering of dervishes most often held at

Frankfurt am Main, Germany - Haus Frauenstein Wilson Carlile
Reverend Prebendary Wilson Carlile (1847-1942) - Founder and Honorary Secretary of The Church Army - pictured with his trombone. Date: circa 1905

A young girl listens to two Koto Players by Miyagawa Choshun (1683-1753). Date: late 18th century

Bagpipe Seller, Charing Cross, London. Date: 1900s

Street Minstrel, Tangier, Morocco, playing a local three-stringed guitar-type instrument. known as a Gimbri. Date: 1929

The Musical Charmer, a woman seated in a domestic interior playing a stringed instrument, mezzotint print on laid paper hand-coloured with watercolour and gouache, by R. Sayer and J

Erato. Statue of Muse of lyric poetry playing the zither
Classical mythology. Erato. Muse of lyric poetry. Roman statue. 2nd century AD. The muse is depicted playing the zither or lyre. From Monte Calvo, Italy. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark

Ukrainian Types by Kostyantyn Oleksandrovych Trutovsky
Ukrainian Types - reproduction after a painting by Kostyantyn Oleksandrovych Trutovsky (1826-1893) - a Ukrainian genre painter and illustrator. Date: circa 1880s

Indian musician plays noseflute and bagpipes simultaneously
An itinerant Indian musician plays a wind instrument similar to a nose flute using one nostril, whilst playing the bagpipes using his mouth

Band of the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays), cavalry regiment in British Army. 1896

Ancient Greek costume, a variety of combinations of high quality dress for men and women. BCE

King David of Israel (C. 1040-970 BC) playing the harp. Statue located near the entrance to the king Davids tomb. Mount Zion. Jerusalem. Israel

Angels with trumpets on a Victorian Christmas scrap
Three angels with trumpets on a Victorian Christmas scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Angel with trumpet on a Victorian Christmas scrap
Angel with a trumpet on a Victorian Christmas scrap. circa 1890s

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