Keyboards Collection

CAT PIANO
Variations on a catatonic scale : the keys are linked to the cats tails, and when depressed the resulting miaows create a concatenation of feline counterpoint

ORGANIST & CHOIRBOY 1904
A choirboy rushes in to Monsieur Achille, the organist, who is playing the wrong kind of music: "Stop, it's not a funeral, it's a wedding!" Date: 1904

SINGER - LITTLE GIRL
LE PETIT PRODIGE A young girl is the wonder of her doting family Date: circa 1848

Monotype keyboard operator at a printing works
Monotype Keyboards at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. The operators readily surmount the problems posed by complicated mathmatical formulae or even composition in Arabic or Hebrew

Advert for Le Pianola-Piano 1912
Le Pianola-Piano permits anyone with a taste for music to play - without any previous study - the most difficult pieces in the repertory, to the admiration of all ! Date: 1912

Elizabethan Spinet
A rare Elizabethan double spinet. This fine example is beautifully inlaid and has a lovely scene painted inside the lid. Date: 16th century

Accordion Picnic Girls
Four crazy girls, singing enthusiasticall to their accordions beside their sports car, in the middle of the countryside! Date: 1930s

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

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

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