Keyboard Collection (page 4)

Pietro Mascagni Organ
PIETRO MASCAGNI Italian musician, composer of Cavalleria rusticana, L amico Fritz and many other operas, at the organ keyboard. Date: 1863 - 1945

Liszt Caricature
FRANZ LISZT Hungarian musician, caricatured at the keyboard Date: 1811 - 1886

Boy Organist
Kenneth Lyer, a boy organist. Date: early 1930s

Salt Lake City - Great Organ in the Mormon Tabernacle
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - Great Organ in the Mormon Tabernacle Date: circa 1901

Spinet - this lovely example with its six-legged stand was made in London by Stephen Keene at the Sign of the Virginal on Threadneedle Street in the 17th century

The Empress Harpsichord - made for the Empress Marie Theresa. The strings are plucked by quills rather than struck by hammers

Dulcimer - a variety of the psaltery, has been in use from very early times. Represented on Assyrian monuments and mentioned in texts from the time of Nebuchadnezzar

Clavicytherium (Upright Spinet)
Clavicytherium - A fine specimen of a rare keyboard instrument - probably the oldest in existence from the early 16th century

Clavichord - A forerunner of the pianoforte, the clavichord was a stringed instrument derived from the dulcimer by the addition of a keyboard

Bible Regal - A small portable organ, which when folded resembles a large bible! Produces a very harsh tone due to the short nature of the pipework

Caricature of Franz Liszt at the keyboard
A caricature of Franz Liszt (1811-1886) in 1842, playing at the keyboard in his usual flamboyant way. Date: 1842

At the keyboard. Illustration shows Nelson Aldrich and JD Rockefeller sitting at a keyboard overlooking Congress in session at the US Capitol; Rockefeller is holding a Prompt Book as Aldrich plays

Hypnotist directing people to do unusual activities: woman playing table like a keyboard instrument, man riding chair like a racehorce, men using broom and umbrella as musical instruments

Advertisement for Nicholson and Co, Australia
Advertisement for Nicholson and Co of George Street, Sydney, Australia, selling musical instruments including pianos and organs, as well as printed music

Cat piano and animal choir
A cat piano and a choir of animals make up this unusual ensemble. A motely selection of humans also feature-a one legged man plays the cat piano

Metropolitan Police vehicle database, London
View of the Metropolitan Police vehicle database at New Scotland Yard, London, with officers working at computer terminals, checking the details of stolen vehicles. (2 of 3) Date: 1974

Metropolitan Police Jay Dee Dance Orchestra
The Metropolitan Police Jay Dee ( standing for J Division) Dance Orchestra, under the direction of Ps Booker. The eight players sit on a stage with their musical instruments: trombone

Harpsichord by Arnold Dolmetsch
Included in the exhibition of Victorian and Edwardian decorative arts at the Victoria and Albert Museum : the first harpsichord to be made by Arnold Dolmetsch, dating from 1896

Metropolitan Police K Division orchestral band

Mallarme Photo
STEPHANE MALLARME French poet (in the middle), with painter Manet and an unidentified lady at the keyboard. Date: 1842-1898

Organ Keyboard

Bechstein Piano Keyboard
The keyboard of a piano by the famous manufacturer Bechstein. Date: 1980s

American troops in church, Exermont, France, WW1
American troops in a ruined church in Exermont, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 1918

At the piano by G. Kilburne
A girl listens to a woman playing the piano. Date: 1875

Portable Typewriter
A portable typewriter in action. Date: circa 1950

Bellows-Keyboard
An unusual keyboard instrument of little more than three octaves, with a pair of bellows at the back Date: ?19th century

An automaton playing a keyboard instrument (a tympanon) constructed in the 18th century by Hintzen & Kintzen. Date: 18th century

Saint-Saens at Age 10
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS Saint-Saens at age 10, already showing talent at the keyboard. Date: 1835-1921

Metropolitan Police fingerprint database
A man sits at a monitor to look at fingerprints on the Metropolitan Police database

Census tabulation in former Lambeth workhouse
Data from the 1931 census being transferred to punched cards in the former Lambeth workhouse - presumably the one on Princes Road (now Black Prince Road), Lambeth, south London

Man playing piano at Christmas
A man playing a piano with a decorated Christmas tree at his side. Three of the candles are lit. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Mozart / Aged 4
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART the Austrian composer at the age of four, seen at the keyboard

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

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

LA Bourgault-Ducoudray
LOUIS-ALBERT BOURGAULT-DUCOUDRAY French composer and musicologist

Kastners Pyrophone
Frederic Kastners instrument is a kind of organ, with keyboard and pipes, but the sound is produced by flames within the pipes

Maurice Ravel / Ouvre
MAURICE RAVEL French musician, depicted at the keyboard

Mozart / Aged 11
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART the Austrian composer at the age of eleven, seen at the keyboard

Liszt / Pianist / Vie Parisi
A humorous comment on the Hungarian composers dramatic keyboard technique

Mother Plays / Son Listens
A little boy stands listening to his mother playing Willies Song

Hippo at the Keyboard
Hippo at the keyboard

Santa at the Keyboard
Santa at the keyboard - he accompanies carol-singers on the organ

Thomas Augustine Arne
THOMAS AUGUSTINE ARNE Composer, at the keyboard

Music making in an aristocratic home, with violin, cello, spinet and singer

Helen Keller / Piano
HELEN ADAMS KELLER (1880-1968), American author and lecturer who was left blind, deaf and mute at the age of 19 months, seen here listening to a piano

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