Organ Collection

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren
King Arthur welcomes the Green Knight into the Banqueting Hall and invites him to dismount and eat with the company. Everyone is amazed to see the unexpected visitor

Organ audition by Cavaill魃oll
An organ audition for an instrument built by Aristide CavaillÚ¡âoll, held in his own spacious business residence on Avenue de Maine, Paris Date: 1870

Js Bach at the Keyboard
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH German organist and composer at the keyboard

Wurlitzer Pipe Organ Ad
WURLITZER Have your own Wurlitzer installed at home and charm the hours away with the lovliest of melodies

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

Various musical instruments

Organist Plays with Fire
While fire rages in Norwich cathedral, the organist plays on... and is found by the firemen half-asphyxiated by the smoke

Middlesex Hospital Chapel, Mortimer Street, London
Middlesex Hospital Chapel, western view, Mortimer Street, London. Date: circa 1910s

Organ - Tippoos Tiger
The unusual organ Tippoos Tiger, constructed to the order of Tippoo Sahib (1753- 1799), Sultan of Mysore, and represents the mauling of an East India Company Officer

Wonders of the cinema organ by G. H. Davis
Noises played for films: wonders of the cinema organ. Thunder, shots and tom-toms controlled by an organist: a film-theatre organ that creates sound effects. Date: 1929

Liver
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a section through a liver (x 7000), an organ that has over 500 functions in the human body (x 800)

Kings College Chapel
Kings College chapel - the interior, looking towards the organ screen

Hurdy-Gurdy Man 1867
Victorian hurdy-gurdy man entertaining children

Church Choirboys
Choirboys singing under a stained glass window at Salfords Church, Horley, Surrey, England

Angel Musician - Window
One angel helps Saint Cecilia play the organ, while another holds a lyre : thanks to this heavenly instruction, she will become the patron saint of musicians

Queen Elisabeth of Romania playing the organ
Queen Elisabeth of Romania (1843 - 1916), formerly Elisabeth of Wied, wife of King Carol I of Romania. Also known by her nom de plume of Carmen Sylva, she is pictured here playing the organ. c.1910

J. W Walkers Organ at the Great Exhibition, 1851
An organ in the Tudor style, designed by Banks and Barry, adapted for a hall or music room. Date: 1851

Sepia photograph of the interior of Borley Church, showing the Waldegrave tomb and organ, dated circa 1926. HPG/1/3/2 (ii)

Lady with a portative organ
Lady in 18th century costume playing a portative organ or organetto. Artist: May Bowley Date: 1905

Snakes by Albertus Seba
Tab 106, an illustration of a pair of snakes from Thesaurus, by Albertus Seba

Liverpool Philharmonic Hall interior, 1849
The interior of the then-new Liverpool Philharmonic Concert Hall, at the time of the Liverpool Music Festival, 1849. The building was eventually replaced in 1939 after its predecessor burnt down in

Charles-Marie Widor
CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR French organist and composer

Organ pipe coral, Tubipora chamissonis. Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842

Advert for Geo. Whight & Co, musical Celestina 1885 Advert for Geo
Mechanical musical instrument, you could buy the music separate quite cheaply so compact that it could be put in your pocket, with thousands of tunes, psalm, march or dance. Date: 1885

The Burning of the Alexandra Palace, 1873
Engraving showing the view inside the Alexandra Palace, Muswell Hill, as the Grand Organ and orchestra was destroyed by fire, June 1873

New orchestra, Exeter Hall
A concert at Exeter Hall, London, show casing the new orchestra. Date: C.1850

Street music: organ grinder rejected, 1858
Repelling foreign invasion: paterfamilias tries the cold water cure in a case of organ grinding. Date: 1858

Greenwich Park 1802
Fun and games in Greenwich Park on a Whitmonday - a bank holiday : picnicking, dancing to a barrel organ, playing games and generally making the most of the day Date: 1802

SPINNING STREET DOG
While its master plays the organ, a dog works a spinning wheel, to the admiration of passers-by in the streets of Paris Date: circa 1816

French women visting the Cossack bivouac in Paris, 1814
Woman in fur-lined coat with fur muff visting the Tatar and Kalmyk Cossack bivouas in Paris after the fall of Napoleon. Cossack encampment on the Champs Elysees, 1814. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

The arch of Laodicea in Syria, near Latakia
View of the ruins of the hexagonal court in the Heliopolis, Temple of Baalbek, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. Mistakenly labeled Arco di Laodicea

Mortier 101-Key Dance Organ - De Kluisberg. Date: 1970s-1980s

Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive Winston Churchill NR 965
At a traction engine rally outside the Museum of Science and Technology on Newhall Street, Birmingham:- Burrell Scenic class Showmans Road Locomotive, regn. NR 965, number 3909, Winston Churchill

Mormon Tabernacle organ and choir, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Date: 1931

Barrel organ and monkey

Barrel or street organ and monkey, early 1900s

Organ Grinder with monkey, Southport

Southport Organ Grinder with monkey early 1900s

Organ grinder, street piano Date: 19th century

Box organ and family Victorian period Date: 19th century

Ukelele Lady, cinema audience sing-along
Ukelele Lady, cinema audience sing along magic lantern projection slide, early 1900s

Yes we have no bananas, cinema audience sing-along
Yes we have no bananas, cinema audience sing along magic lantern projection slide, early 1900s

Cinema advertisment for Reginald Dixon, probably 1940s

The Giants Organ, Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
The Giants Organ, Giant's Causeway, Country Antrim, Northern Ireland. Date: circa 1910s

The Choir, Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

View down the nave, Lincoln Cathedral, Lincolnshire
View down the nave, Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Beddington Organ Screen
An organ screen designed and made at the workshops of William Morris, who painted part of the screen. The piece is located at St. Mary's Church in Beddington, Surrey. Date: circa 1869

St. Mark's Church, North Audley Street Organ Case
An architectural drawing of a large, decorative organ case inside St. Mark's Church at North Audley Street, London. The church was designed by architect John Peter Gandy

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