Instruments Collection (page 10)

Musicians with instruments on a Christmas and New Year card
Musicians with instruments on a Christmas card, with a quotation from The Merchant of Venice: I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Date: circa 1890s

Violin with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Forgetmenots and harp on a greetings card. Date: early 20th century

Fairies performing on a Christmas and New Year card
Fairies and goblins performing on a Christmas and New Year card -- The Performance. Date: circa 1890s

Musical owl with banjo serenading on a romantic card
Musical owl with banjo serenading a dove on a comic romantic card. Date: circa 1890s

Violin with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Musical instruments on a greetings card
Musical instruments including a lyre on a greetings card -- Faith, Hope. Date: circa 1890s

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

Musique - music - musical instruments
A dizzying array of musical instruments. Date: 1930

Scene at the Festival of Fools, Penzance, Cornwall -- a violinist named Wilfred entertains three small children. Date: circa 1970s

Sandor Vegh, Hungarian-French violinist and conductor
Sandor Vegh (1912-1997), Hungarian (later French) violinist and conductor. Seen here taking part in an International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, Cornwall (which he founded in 1972)

Rugby School OTC band, c. 1906
Rugby School OTC band posing for a photograph with their instruments in 1906 (possibly 1907). Date: c.1906

Advert for John Brinsmead & Sons pianos 1889
Victorian lady playing The Moonlight Sonata, on a piano, with gentlemen in white tie gather round to listen. 1889

Music cover, Mozart Selected Sonatas and other Pieces
Music cover, W A Mozart Selected Sonatas and other Pieces for the pianoforte, Cotta Edition. 1896

78 rpm record cover, Saville Pianos Ltd, offering piano tuning and repairs, records and musical instruments. 20th century

At the circus, two clowns playing musical instruments 1888
Two traditional circus clowns, wearing ruffled collar, pointed hats, white faces with red noses, lips, eyebrows and cheeks, playing musical instruments. Date: 1888

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

Angels with flowers and instruments on nine Victorian scraps
Angels with flowers and musical instruments on nine Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Frog playing a mandolin on a French postcard
Frog dressed in female clothing playing a mandolin or banjo on a French postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Four frogs playing and singing on a greetings postcard
Four frogs playing the violin, conducting and singing on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

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

History of medicine. Dentist. Middle Ages. Satire. Engraving
History of medicine. Dentist (barbers or general physicians). Middle Ages. Satire. Engraving of a collection of comic work. 12th century. Colored

Old navigational instruments. Compass and sextant. 19th-20th
Old navigational instruments. Compass and sextant. 19th-20 th centuries. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) and P. P. Rubens (1577-164
Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Flemish painter, with the collaboration of P.P. Rubens (1577-1640). Allegory of Sight, 1617. Oil on wood. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Lurs. The lur horns are Nordic wind instruments. Used for Br
Prehistory. Art. Metal Age. Lurs. The lur horns are the distinctively Nordic wind instruments. Used to create an atmospheric background of sound for Bronze Age rituals

Byzantine relief. Greece. Marble with mythological represen
BYZANTINE ART. GREECE. Marble relief with mythological representation. Dated from the latest XI century and early XII century. It comes from Athens. Byzantine Museum. Athens

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (Paris, 1743-1794). French chemist.. Established the composition of the water and the basis of bioenergetics

Summer dress by Elsa Schiaparelli
Illustration of a summer dress designed by Elsa Schiaparelli in flame mousseline, with tourquoise, flame and gold metal musical instruments embroidered around a dropped hip line. Date: 1939

A French cornemuse and an Indian sarangi
Page from the Illustrated London News, 9th March 1963, showing two instruments from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: a French cornemuse

Jazzy Curtains 1930S
Jazzy bedroom curtains and pelmets, decorated with musical instruments. Date: 1930s

Soprano Saxophone
SOPRANO SAXOPHONE : one of a family of instruments invented about 1840 by a Frenchman, Adolphe Sax. Date: 1897

Tubular Slide Rule
OTIS KING TUBULAR SLIDE RULE a mechanical calculating devise using addition & subtraction of logarithms to simplify division and multiplication Date: circa 1960

Paris Exhibition - Palace of science, letters and art 1900
The entrance of printing exhibits, the scholastic exhibits, the display of books, ancient and modern, mathematical, scientific and musical instruments. Date: 1900

Cafe Restaurant Pschorr, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dinner Dance Hall of the Cafe Restaurant Pschorr, Coolsingel, Rotterdam, Netherlands, with the bandstand and a New York backdrop. Date: circa 1930s

Woman asleep and dreaming on a Christmas card. She has been playing music from Handels Messiah on a pipe organ, and dreams of angels announcing the birth of Christ -- For unto us a child is born

Boys Band, St Edwards Orphanage, Thingwall, Liverpool
The boys band pose with their instruments at St Edwards Orphanage, Thingwall, Liverpool. Two monks in their gowns flank the boys. Date: early 1900s

Chins Restaurant, Broadway, New York City, USA
Chins Restaurant, Broadway, corner of 44th Street, New York City, USA, with band instruments on the left and a dance floor on the right. Date: circa 1920

Cats enjoying a dance on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Uighurs dancing, Xinjiang, north west China
Uighurs performing their national dance, Xinjiang, north west China. Date: 1953

Armistice Day event, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, WW1
Armistice Day event on 11 November 1918 with native military brass band in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania), to mark the end of the First World War. Date: 1918

British entering Dar-es-Salaam, East Africa, WW1
British forces entering Dar-es-Salaam, formerly German East Africa, after the surrender of 4 September 1916. 1916

Children playing instruments in the snow
Two sweet little children play the trumpet and drums outside in the snowy countryside. Date: 1912

Egyptians surgical instruments made of bronze. Egyptian art. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. History of Medicine Museum

Advertisements from The Illustrated London News, 1896
A page of advertisements from The Illustrated London News, 18th January 1896. Products promoted include Halfords curry powder

Signalling equipment on the Western Front, WW1
The various instruments used by signallers in transmitting messages on the Western Front during the First World War. In the left hand top corner are the aerial cables conveying telephone or Morse

Boys of Barberton Scout Troop, South Africa, being inspected by the British Consul at Lourenco Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique

New Zealand Maori Ornaments and Decorations. They are an ear ornament, real or imitation teeth, grotesque figures (tiki), earrings, a tail feather, a shell, wooden combs, a fly catcher

Saxs new musical instruments
The new saxhorn, trombone and saxophone: musical instruments developed by Adolphe Sax. Date: 1864

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