Instruments Collection (page 25)

France - Le Faouet - Breton Men playing bagpipes
France - Le Faouet - Morbihan Departement - Binious Breton Men playing a horn and bagpipes

Delhi Observatory - Janter Manter. Built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur in 1710

Poster advertising Canuto Berea musical instruments
Poster advertising Canuto Berea y Compagnia for musical instruments, in particular pianos, based in La Coruna, Spain. A classical scene is depicted

A technician doing miniature work
A technician uses an unidentified instrument, incorporating a microscope and an electomagnetic circuit to work on very tiny electronic components. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Whirling Dervishes with instruments - Urfa
Whirling Dervishes with instruments, a sheikh, children and men in uniform at Urfa (Orfa), Turkey (formerly Edessa, Mesopotamia - the birthplace of Abraham)

Performers at an amateur concert
Actors and musicians performing at an amateur concert in the 19th century

Harem ladies in oriental costumes
Turkish models pose in the roles of ladies of the Harem in oriental costumes and holding musical instruments

Band of the National Waifs Association (Dr Barnardo s)
A boys band of the National Waifs Association, otherwise known as Dr Barnardo s. The instruments include hand bells, bagpipes, mandolins, and a guitar

Workshop - National Laboratory of Psychical Research
Undated photograph of workshop in the laboratory of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research where instruments were constructed and kept in repair. HPG/1/2/1 (iii)

Holborn Schools Band, Mitcham, Surrey
Boys band at Holborn Schools, High Street, Mitcham - originally established in 1856 in the grounds of Eagle House. The Schools provided accommodation

Dancing children
A group of five children in spring like attire dance and play musical instruments

Children dancing
A group of five children wearing matching lilac spring time outfits dance, skip and play musical instruments

Period musical instrument making
A company specialising in the production of period musical instruments. A man turns a piece of wood on a lathe which will eventually form part of a recorder

Physical education, girls
A group of barefooted teenage girls learn to be graceful and lady-like during a lesson of musical movement, which involves playing various musical instruments whilst stretching and dancing

Physical education, girls
A group of barefooted teenage girls learn to be graceful and lady-like during a lesson of musical movement, which involves playing various musical instruments whilst stretching and dancing

Maratha Caste in India - Musicians
Individuals of the Maratha Caste in India singing Bhujan or religious hymns. There are a whole host of men, women, and children, some with instruments

A large group of Musicians - Constantinople
The Choice Artists and musicians directed by the Amiable Band Leader Mr Lange, Constantinople

Senegal - West Africa - Tam Tam Malinke - Dancers
The Dance of the Riflemen at Tam Tam Malinke, Senegal

Musical crackers
Colourful Christmas cracker box label from the 1920s featuring a picture of a group of children playing musical instruments

The International Exhibition, Dublin
A large colour engraving by the Leighton brothers, issued as a special supplement by The Illustrated London News, depicting the International Exhibition at Dublin in 1865

Improvised German band 1915
In camp, somewhere on the Russian Front, an improvised musical band made up of German soldiers, with instruments created from various everyday objects such as a watering can, perform

The Band That Blew Too Hard by Hynes
Humorous illustration showing a band in a club or restaurant blowing their brass instruments so hard, that diners and dancers find themselves struggling against a gale force wind - wigs are blown off

German troops with homemade instruments
Unit of German soldiers during the First World War, posing with their homemade instruments!

Christmas time chaos
A chaotic but merry scene depicting a family at Christmas. The children, all very energetic and excited, play musical instruments, help decorate the tree and play games

The band of HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey - Khedive of Egypt
The band of HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey (also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha) (1874 - 1944) - the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (1892 - 1914)

Egyptian Dancing Girls, some seated, some playing musical instruments, one smoking. The dancer is accompanied by a pipe player and a drummer

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

1494 BANQUET
A courtly banquet is accompanied by heralds blowing wind instruments, and eating is done with knives but without forks

Richard Greens Clock
Draught of a curious CLOCK in the possession of Mr Rich. Green of Litchfield

Chinese Percussion
A variety of Chinese percussive instruments, including a hanging rack of square bells, a tensioned drum and a percussion instrument in the shape of a tiger

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 )

Waganda Band, 1860 s
Engraving showing a group of the Waganda, or Baganda, people of south-central Uganda playing musical instruments, early 1860 s

AN ABACUS
An abacus adding machine

Times & Tides Tablets
Built into the walls of Durleston Castle, Dorset, are several tablets on which are inscribed many clock times of the world, tidal times &c

Commodore 64
A person wearing a digital watch types at a Commodore keyboard. A notebook and floppy disk drive sit on the desk beside

Violin Maker
A violin maker fixing the wooden front onto the main body of the instrument in his workshop

On the deck of a warship, Hands to Dance and Skylark, 1889
Engraving showing the deck of a Victorian warship, with the crew off duty, entitled Hands to Dance and Skylark. Sailors smoking, dancing and playing musical instruments all across the gun deck

Victorian Police Band
Metropolitan Police G Division, Victorian Police Band with their musical instruments

Ayrton and Perry
Portrait engravings of Professor William Ayrton and Professor John Perry, electrical engineers. Ayrton held the post of Professor of Natural Philosophy

Heveliuss Telescope
The great 200 foot (60+ metres) telescope of Hevelius

VIOLINIST, 1731
A violinist

Old String Instruments
1 & 2 - Pocket Violins; 3 - Treble Violin; 4 - Standard Treble Violin; 5 - Tenor Violin; 6 - Bass Viol; 7 - Trumscheit; 8 - Scheidtholst

Clavicytherium
A keyboard instrument which shows the evolution from fingered instruments such as the harp to struck instruments such as the clavichord

Using Armillary Sphere
An astronomer using an ARMILLARY SPHERE whose rings show the equator, tropics, polar circles and so forth

Euphonium (Wurlitzer)
Three euphoniums (euphonia ?) from the Wurlitzer catalogue

The Organ Blower
Early or unsophisticated organs rely on manual power to supply the air for the pipes; this youth is pumping air in an English parish church

Helicon Bass Horn from the Wurlitzer range

Brave Accordeon Player
At Stradella, Italy, accordeon player Guglielmo Bonfoco refuses anaesthetics for leg amputation, provided he can play his instrument during the operation

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