Instruments Collection (page 26)

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

American Violinist 1910
Song of the Soul - an American violinist performs with feeling

16th Century Musicians 2
A drummer performs with players of various types of wind instruments

Bournville Carillonneur
Playing the carillon at Bournville Village, England

Wurlitzer Violin Outfit
Cremona violin outfit from the Wurlitzer range

Making Toy Drums 1890
Le montage des tambours - assembling drums

Wurlitzer Drums
Trap drum outfit from the Wurlitzer catalogue. You get not only drums but Cow Bell, Tambourine, Cymbals and Whistle !

Bow Bells 1850
Ringing the Bow Bells of St Mary-le-Bow church, Cheapside, London : they were destroyed in the Blitz but recast 1961 : to be born in their hearing makes you a true Cockney

Pianist in N Y Bar
The piano-player in a New York saloon : please do not shoot him, for he is doing his best

Samisen, Kokiu, Biwa
Three stringed instruments : the SAMISEN (three strings, played with a plectrum); the KOKIU, like a small samisen but played with a bow; the BIWA, a lute-like instrument

C16 Instrumentalists
A lady personifying music presents the scales which are the foundation of western music, while around her all kinds of instruments are being played or constructed

Freres Barometer
Richard Freres registering aneroid barometer

Laser Anemometer 1968
This experiment measures how much light from a laser beam can pass through the water in the glass tube when the water moves at different speeds

Llangefri Clock Tower
This Neo-Gothic clock tower in Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales, is a War Memorial to George Pritchard Rayner, who died at Bloemfontein Hospital (Boer War) in 1900. Unveiled 1902

Giant Sundial
A giant sundial, looking almost like a modern day satellite dish, on the outside of a private cottage at Seaton Ross, Yorkshire

Benson Watch Advert 1894
An advertisement for J.W. Bensons keyless brooch watches

Weighing Machine 1883
A little girl sits on a weighing machine on the London underground

Aneroid Barometer 1875
An aneroid barometer

Woman and Garden Sundial
A woman sits pensively in a garden with a sundial

Selection of Microscopes
A selection of single microscopes

Rabbit Musicians
A rabbits musical ensemble serenade a human in his house

Fragson and Piano
Fragson stands in front of his piano

Japanese girls making music playing musical instruments

Man with Violin 1926
A man sits in the doorway of a barn and plays the violin. His cat, not being a particulaly musical species, tries for a quick getaway

Cellist Tunes up 1931
A bespeckled cellist tunes his instrument

Woman with Violin 1930
A young woman playing the violin

Military Drummers
Drummers of the French Armee d Afrique at practice

Family / Hamilton / 1793
A family domestic scene in Britain. The children read and play musical instruments

Jesuits in Paraguay
The Guarani natives of Paraguay are alarmed when the Jesuit missionaries arrive in a boat playing musical instruments, but are enchanted by the music

Harrisons First
John Harrisons FIRST marine chronometer

Harrisons Second
John Harrisons SECOND marine chronometer made for George II

Clock / Clepsydra, C magne
The Clepsydra of Charlemagne (or water stealer ). A graduated vase was filled with liqued which stole through an aperture. The receding height marked the passage in hours

Descartes / Microscope
The rays fallen parallelwise on the concavity of the mirror are brought back obliquely towards the focus of the spherule. Perfected by Siberkhunnas after Descartes

Learning Music
Studying and practising music on a wide range of instruments under the supervision of a teacher

Santorios Balance C16
Santorio (b.1561) weighed himself for 24 hour periods and proved that weight gain or loss varied according to the type of food consumed

Lady Plays Mandolin
The entertainer Farfalla accompanies herself on the mandolin at the Scala, Copenhagen, Denmark

Young Girl with Violin
Girl with her violin

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