Instruments Collection (page 7)

Four cats singing and playing on a cutout Christmas card
Four cats singing carols and playing musical instruments on a cutout Christmas card. (1 of 2) circa 1890s

Pompeii wall painting -- three women, two with musical instruments

Johann Strauss conducting an orchestra. circa 1898

Saturn and his rings! only a penny 1856
Street telescope exhibitor in London. Attracting passers by to have a look through the telescope on a clear night for a penny. Date: 1856

View of an Arras street with ruined buildings, WW1
View of an Arras street with ruined buildings, First World War. In the foreground on the right are a few band members with their music instruments, mostly drums. circa 1915-1917

Return from Changing of the Guard, London
Returning from the Changing of the Guard, Buckingham Palace, London. Date: circa 1930s

House of Stradivarius, Piazza Roma, Cremona, Italy
The House of Stradivarius, violin maker, West Side, Piazza Roma, Cremona, Italy

78 rpm Cover Sleeve, Embassy Records, Music for You. 1950s

Memorial service, Pembroke Dockyard, West Wales. Claimed to be for those lost on the minesweeper HMS Jason, which was sunk by a mine from a German U-boat in April 1917 off Coll Island, Scotland

Mathematical Drawing Instruments. circa 1880s

Case of Drawing Instruments
Case of Foreign-Made Drawing Instruments. circa 1880s

London Fire Brigade band, group photo, with brass, woodwind and percussion instruments. Date: circa 1920s

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

London Fire Brigade band, centenary celebrations
Members of the LCC-London Fire Brigade band, with their conductor, performing during the centenary celebrations on 11 November 1966. Date: 1966

Dr. Frederick Cook using sextant 1908
Dr. Frederick Albert Cook (1865 - 1940), American explorer, physician, and ethnographer, claims that he reached the North Pole on 21st April 1908, a year before Robert Peary

A group of Russian soldiers in camp accompanied by their musical instruments. Date: 1916

Farmers in France cultivating the ground after World War One were finding unexploded projectiles. In this drawing you can see a operator with a telephone receiver (microphone)

HARRISONs FOURTH
Duplicate of John Harrisons number 4 timekeeper, made by Larcum Kendall and taken by Captain Cook on his second and third voyages Date: 1767

The Haslemere Museum, Surrey, England, is famous to music lovers far and wide, for its fine collection of old musical instruments. Date: early 19th century

Church bell in the grounds of Glenfinnan Church, Inverness- shire, Scotland. It was originally intended for the church tower, but it proved to be too heavy! Date: 1930s

Study of Highland Piper, playing his bagpipes, Scotland. Date: 1950s

Men of the Oban Pipe Band, playing their bagpipes at the Highland Games, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Date: 1950s

The brainchild of Sir Bernard Lovell, the Lovell Radio Telescope is in Cheshire, England. Here are shown part of its supports and track. Date: 1960s

Two blind beggars playing stringed instruments. Date: 1890s

"The Itinerant Musician"- a Flemish fiddler. Date: 17th Century
" The Itinerant Musician" - a Flemish fiddler. Date: 17th Century

East Bergholts unique 16th century Bell Cage and bells
circa 1910s

Johanna de Lasandes Luncheon, detail Date: 1740

Variety of Instruments Date: 1880

Upright Piano Date: 1880

Angel Musicians

Astronomers Using Astrolabes Date: 1450

Broadwoods Pianoforte manufactory 1858
John Broadwood & Sons at Horseferry Road, Westminster, London. Showing the extensive building and a large area in which it covered, employing a large number of workmen. Date: 1858

Euterpean Band, Westerville, Ohio, USA
Members of the Euterpean Band (nicknamed the Rube Band of Otterbein), Westerville, Ohio, USA. Date: 1907

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

Types of the Black Watch 1899
One of the gallant regiments represented at the Battle of Magersfontein, Kimberley, South Africa. Date: December 1899

Christmas supplement front cover for 1875
Christmas front cover supplement for The Illustrated London News, 1875. Showing a group of musicians being greeted at the door with a big bowl of wassail. Date: 1875

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

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

MENDING A WRISTWATCH
A man looks on as his watch is being mended Date: 1930s

LORD ROSSES TELESCOPE
Built by the 3rd Earl of Rosse in 1842 and known as the Leviathan of Parsonstown. It was the largest telescope in the world for three-quarters of a century. Date: 1888

NEWTONS SUNDIAL showing signs of the Zodiac, the seasons and the months of the years. Date: late 17th century

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

Harpsichord - 1833
Later, more sophisticated harpischords have pedals, as this one does. Date: 1833

BURMESE MUSICIANS 1861
An elaborately equipped sextet perform at a funeral at Rangoon : most of their instruments are percussion, two sets being housed in playpen-like rings. Date: 1861

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

Drummer, - 1867
D was a Drummer Who played with a grace... Date: 1867

Lady playing an upright piano in her front room
A lady looks up from the keys. Date: circa 1900

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