Percussion Collection (page 4)

13th Highlanders Band of scouts on the march with drums

Dutch boy scouts on a parade ground with flags of various nations and musical instruments. Date: 1979

Sea Scouts playing bagpipes, Gibraltar
Gibraltar Sea Scouts playing the bagpipes and drums, practising for their visit to Edinburgh for the 15th Scottish International Scout Jamboree at Blair Atholl Castle, Scotland. Date: 1970s

Medieval music making: man plays bells
A halo-ed figure(possibly King David)plays a row of eight bells

Regional HQ band at LFB Headquarters, Lambeth
Group photograph of the Regional HQ band with their instruments at London Fire Brigade HQ. The purpose-built bandstand behind the band was incorporated in the original design brief of the Brigades

Band of the Regina Boy Scouts Troop, Canada
Band of the Regina Boy Scouts Troop, Saskatchewan, Canada. Date: 1913

Scouts of the 1st Nairobi Troop, East Africa
Two scouts of the 1st Nairobi Troop, Kenya, then in British East Africa, with drums

Boys of Norwood Scout Troop band, South Africa
Boys of Norwood Scout Troop band, Johannesburg, South Africa, with brass, woodwind and percussion instruments

Scouts of the 6th Bahamas Troop

Scouts of the 1st Bahamas Troop, in an outdoor group photo with palm trees

Imogen Holst with James Blades
Imogen Holst and James Blades in Orford Church, early July 1961, with the handbells used in Brittens Noyes Fludde Date: 1961

James Blades Score for Beggars Opera
The percussion part sketch for Act II of The Beggars Opera (not in Brittens hand, nor that of Imogen Holst). Almost certainly notes by James Blades. Date: 1963

James Blades teaching Suffolk Schoolchildrens Orchestra
James Blades helping two members of the Suffolk Schoolchildrens orchestra in rehearsal for Noyes Fludde at Orford Church on 5 July 1962 Date: 1961

James Blades with Paul Sacher
James Blades, percussionist, talking with Paul Sacher, conductor, during a rehearsal of the English Chamber Orchestra for the Aldeburgh Festival concert in the Jubilee Hall on 2 July 1961 Date: 1961

Poster advertising International Festival, Brussels
Poster advertising International Guards Festival, Brussels, 7-9 June 1935, showing a marching military band of different nationalities. Date: 1935

James Blades in rehearsal, Aldeburgh Festival
James Blades in rehearsal by the font of Aldeburgh Parish Church, Aldeburgh Festival Choral and Orchestral Concert, 24 June 1962 Date: 1962

Regional African music: the marimba
The marimba, or African piano

Regional music: an oriental zylophone
An oriental zylophone(also known as a kinnery or mokkin), an Asiatic percussion instrument

Geisha musicians, Japan, with stringed instruments, flute and percussion. Date: circa 1890s

Nautch woman dancing, India
Nautch woman dancing, with two musicians playing, India. Date: circa 1890s

Monks with musical instruments, northern India. Date: circa 1890s

Young woman with castanets, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Two Asian musical instruments:a puckhaway(drum), and a kinnery(also known as a mokkin), resembling a zylophone

Chinese troops on Western Front in France, WW1
Chinese troops on the Western Front in France during World War One. They are celebrating a dragon day with a Chinese boat display. Date: circa 1916

Regional music: The Yun-lu
The Yun-lu(also called yunluo), an Asiatic percussion instrument

Street performers, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Frank & Raymond Hills Los Angeles Dance Orchestra, previously resident at the Hotel Negresco, Nice, France. Their instruments include violin, saxophone, banjo, piano, drums, trombone and euphonium

MARTINEZ COMPANON Y BUJANDA, Baltasar Jaime (1735-1797). Trujillo del Peru en el siglo XVIII. 1782 - 1785. Vol 2. Plate 142

Fruit Label -- Bat Brand, extra extra selected. Depicting a bat playing a drum. Date: 20th century

Repeating Pattern - Toy Drummers. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Marimba
The Zulu Harmonicon (shown in front and rear view) is also known as the Marimba. Each of the ten bars of wood have a gourd attached, which acts as a resonator

Khong Yai - Harmonicons (Khong Vong gong chimes) of wood or metal form the basis of bands of Siam (Thailand), Burma (Myanmar) and the Indian Archipelago

Indian Drum - Mridangam
Indian Drum - this is a type of Mridangam drum. The pieces of wood between the leather braces and the striped shell are used to assist the tuning

Blind Musician, Bermuda with three young children persussionists accompanying his banjo playing. All are wearing remarkable costumes (which must have been seriously hot!). Date: circa 1909

Tambourine-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Birds on a drum-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Dog with tambourine on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Guns with stamp Ramon Zuloaga 1822, transformed
" Guns with stamp " Ramon Zuloaga 1822", transformed into the percussion system. SPAIN. Vitoria. Museum of the Armeric (armoury)."

Percussion cap handgun (beginning 19th c. ). SPAIN
Percussion cap handgun (beginning 19th c.). SPAIN. Ripoll. Ripoll Ethnographic Museum

Greenlanders singing combat, c. 1800
Natives of Greenland gather outdoors for a singing contest. Date: c. 1800

Bolivia - Traditional Drummers and Dancer Date: circa 1930s

Silhouettes of soldiers in wartime
Some of our lads -- silhouettes of soldiers in wartime. Including a piper playing the bagpipes, men standing on guard or chatting, a drummer, men carrying tools and materials for trench digging

King David and his choir make music inside an illuminated letter C. Date: Early 15th century

Garoet, Indonesia - Puppet Theatre and Gamelan
Garoet, Indonesia - Puppet Theatre and musicians forming a Gamelan orchestra Date: 1927

Indian man with a Pakhawaj drum
A Pakhawaj drum - essentially a north Indian version of the mridangam drum and is the most common north Indian representative of the class of barrel shaped drums known as mridang. Date: circa 1920s

Australian band playing in square, Bapaume, France, WW1
An Australian band playing in the town square at Bapaume, northern France, during the First World War, with ruined buildings in the background and debris on the ground. Date: circa 1917

Portuguese infantry marching through Saint-Floris, WW1
Portuguese infantry marching through Saint-Floris, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1916-1918

Bonang Players - Bali
The Bonang is a musical instrument used in the Javanese gamelan (percussion orchestra). It is a collection of small gongs (sometimes called kettles or pots)

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