Instruments Collection (#17)

Washington Club Band, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
Washington Club Novelty Band, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA, with people in fancy dress holding musical instruments. Date: circa 1906

Ciricillos Italian Band, Dubuque, Iowa, USA. Showing Salvatore Ciricillo on the conductors podium and the boys and men seated, with their instruments. Date: 1910

Man playing the violin Date: c.1910

Group photo, British regimental band, WW1
Group photo, the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regimental Band, in relaxed mode. Date: circa 1914

Giovanni Battista Doni, Italian musicologist
Giovanni Battista Doni (1594-1647), Italian musicologist who studied ancient music. He changed the name of the tonic note Ut, renaming it Do after his own family name. Seen here at the age of 50

Boy scout band at camp
A boy scout band at camp, with drums and bugles. Date: 20th century

Two boy scout buglers at camp. Date: 20th century

Boy scouts band, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
Group photo of the boy scouts of the Ponsonby Drum and Fife Band, affiliated with the Ponsonby No. 1 Troop of Auckland City, New Zealand. They won a competition with a five quickstep selection

Carlos Juliao (1740-1814). Coronation of a king in the celebrations of Kings, Brazil, 18th c. Costumbrism. Watercolour

Equipment for dislocated arm. Image from the book Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts lib鲡 ux et les arts mechaniques : avec leur explication... 1772. Engraving. ITALY. LOMBARDY

STRADIVARI, Amtonio (1644-1737). Italian luthier and a crafter of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas, and harps. Oil

Temples of Sobek and Haroeris. 2nd-1st c. BC. EGYPT. Kawm Umbu. Temple of Kom Ombo (dedicated to Haroeris and Sobek). Relief depicting surgical instruments. Egyptian art. Ptolemaic period

Sculpture with drum. Art of the Yaka people (Congo). African art. Sculpture on wood. BELGIUM. FLANDERS. BRABANT. Tervuren. Mus饠 Royal de l Afrique Central (Royal Museum for Central Africa)

Japan - A group of music girls
Lantern slide of a group of music girls. Depicts 12 women with various instruments.. Part of Box 158 Japan, part of Boswell Collection, slide no. 42 Date: circa 1890s

Druidical Design Curtains
Black and white lantern slide of a curtain design inspired by the modern spiritiuality, Druidism. There is a female figure, mistletoe foliage, musical instruments and stone arrangements

Japan - A collection of musical instruments
Lantern slide of a collection of musical instruments.. Part of Box 158 Japan, part of Boswell Collection, slide no. 43 Date: circa 1890s

Spain - Segovia - Peasants of the Province - Musicians
A black and white slide showing two people in Spanish dress, with instruments. Segovia is a city in Spain, the capital of Segovia Province in the autonomous community of Castile

13th Highlanders Band of scouts on the march with drums

Dutch wind band playing in open air, Holland
A Dutch wind band playing in the open air, Holland

Dutch boy scouts on a parade ground with flags of various nations and musical instruments. Date: 1979

Dutch boy scouts in a Rover Den, Holland
Dutch boy scouts in a rather eerily-lit Rover Den, Holland, playing instruments for a sing-song

Sea Scouts playing bagpipes, Gibraltar
Gibraltar Sea Scouts playing the bagpipes and drums, practising for their visit to Edinburgh for the 15th Scottish International Scout Jamboree at Blair Atholl Castle, Scotland. Date: 1970s

Scouts and Sea Scouts playing bagpipes, Edinburgh
Scouts from Edinburgh and Sea Scouts from Gibraltar playing the bagpipes in a combined band, leading a parade of over 800 scouts

Music in the trenches
An impromptu musical performance by French soldiers in their trench. The instruments shown are a drum, a metal cooking pot, a flute and a self-made violin. Date: 1915

Boy scouts welcome Governor to Jamboree, Cyprus
Boy scouts with bugles and drums, welcoming the Governor, Sir Hugh Foot (1907-1990), to their Jamboree, Cyprus. Date: 1959

Boy scouts with trumpets, Denmark
Two Danish boy scouts, blowing ancient Danish trumpets

Frances Day (1908 - 1984), born Frances Schenk, revue, cabaret, television and film actress and one of the original blonde bombshells

London Fire Brigade band members with trumpets
Members of the LCC-London Fire Brigade band, standing in a row with their fanfare trumpets. The pith helmets seen here were later replaced with brass helmets

LFB band at LCC Jubilee Reception, County Hall, London
The LFB band taking part in an LCC Jubilee Reception for the Metropolitan Boroughs at County Hall on 21 July 1950. Date: 1950

Regional HQ band at LFB Headquarters, Lambeth
Group photograph of the Regional HQ band with their instruments at London Fire Brigade HQ. The purpose-built bandstand behind the band was incorporated in the original design brief of the Brigades

London Fire Brigade band members
Members of the LCC-London Fire Brigade band, standing in a row playing their instruments. Date: 1937

London Fire Brigade band at Brigade Headquarters
Group photograph of the LCC-London Fire Brigade band with the Deputy Chief Officer, Major Frank Whitford Jackson, sitting in the centre of the front row

Band of the Regina Boy Scouts Troop, Canada
Band of the Regina Boy Scouts Troop, Saskatchewan, Canada. Date: 1913

Bahamas scouts marching behind band
Bahamas scouts marching behind a band

Bahamas scouts with band
Bahamas scouts with a band on a parade ground

Two diggers playing frying-pans in front of their bell tents
Australia will be there. Two diggers playing frying-pans (as musical instruments) in front of their bell tents with a wonderful parade of Australian animals and birds carrying rifles and saluting

German brass band receive no applause, WW1
German street musicians in England surprised to receive no applause and no donations after performing. Date: 1914

Boys of Norwood Scout Troop band, South Africa
Boys of Norwood Scout Troop band, Johannesburg, South Africa, with brass, woodwind and percussion instruments

Scouts of the 6th Bahamas Troop

Scouts of the 1st Bahamas Troop, in an outdoor group photo with palm trees

Wind Band at St Thomass Home, Preston, Lancashire
The St Thomass Home wind band pose with their instruments. The home was established in 1901 as an Industrial School for Roman Catholic Boys. Date: 1920

Gordon Boys Orphanage, Dover - Band and Pipers
Band and pipers of the Gordon Boys Orphanage, Dover. The boys, in uniform and holding instruments, are accompanied by the homes staff. Date: Date unknown

Poster advertising International Festival, Brussels
Poster advertising International Guards Festival, Brussels, 7-9 June 1935, showing a marching military band of different nationalities. Date: 1935

Various surgical instruments
A woodcut depicting various surgical instruments. From: Mikrokosmographia: a description of the body of man, together with the controversies and figures thereto belonging. Date: 1616

Relics of the thorns from the Crown of Thorns. From: Memoire sur les instruments de la passion de N.-S. J.-C. Date: 1870

Wurlitzer advertisement, 1925
Girl of 13 makes $75 a week! Alice Higgie of Chicago made this amount weekly in vaudeville in the summer of 1924, thanks to her easy to play Wurlitzer saxophone. Send for your free book now!

Musical instrument manufacture, 1855
The interior of the factory of Pierre Louis Gautrot, showing the manufacture of musical instruments. Furnices can be seen to the rear

String and wind instrument manufacture, 1855
The interior of the factory of Pierre Louis Gautrot, showing the manufacture of wind and stringed musical instruments in 1855. Date: 1855

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