Piano Collection (page 12)

Mrs Mills, celebrity pianist, with boy and dog
Mrs Mills (Gladys Mills, nee Gladys Jordan, 1918-1978), celebrity pianist. Seen here encouraging a boy to stick at his piano practice, while a dog sits on a chair looking mournful. Date: circa 1960s

Woman in house clothes playing the piano, 1793. Maria Anna Thecla Rottmaennin with her long hair.. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes

City Point, South Boston, Mass, USA
View of City Point, South Boston, Mass, USA, with an advertisement for Poole Pianos. Showing the park, the sea and the yacht club house. Date: circa 1909

Pierrot couple with piano
A Pierrot couple entertaining each other at the piano. (4 of 4)

A Puzzle for Paderewski, by Bairnsfather
A Puzzle for Paderewski " Its a pity Alf ain t ere, Bert: e can play the piana wonderful" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1917

Paris International Exhibition of 1937 (Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne). Magical piano in fancy restaurant on Cours Albert 1er street

San SebastiᮮFestival 2009. Javier Rebollo
SPAIN. Donostia. Spanish director Javier Rebollo recieves the 57th San Sebastian International Film Festivals Silver Shell to the best director

Christmas Day at the Aldwych YMCA Rest Hut, WW1
Soldiers and sailors enjoying some lively entertainment at the busy Aldwych Rest Hut, Christmas 1916. Gifts of pipes, tobacco

An Unfinished Symphony - a Duet at the Front, WW1
Music in a war-wrecked room: a British officer and a French Alpine Chasseur playing near Ypres. Apparently the officer was a well-known musician and the grand piano was played, briefly

Youth hostel The Warbler, Kortenhoef, Netherlands
Young people in a youth hostel, De Karekiet (The Warbler ), Kortenhoef, Netherlands

Woman at Work & At Play WW1. Woman at work in a factory and at home playing the piano keeps husband in her thoughts. Date: circa 1916

Young girl playing the piano.. Rembrances. Date: circa 1906

Destruction by fire of Collards Piano Factory
Destruction by fire of Collards Piano-forte Manufactory - Oval Road, Camden, London on 19th December 1851. Date: 1851

Two Bars Rest - Woman smoking, 1917
Illustration by E. Lucchesi taken from a De Reske cigarettes advertisement showing a woman multi tasking by playing the piano with one hand and lighting her cigarette from a candle with the other

Sportsmens Battalion having a sing-song, WW1
Some members of the Sportsmen Battalion having a sing around a piano. Most of the soldiers pictured are county cricketers but there is also C R Little, the Canadian baseball player

Record sleeve, 1920s
A record sleeve for the music label His Masters Voice, featuring an illustration showing a lady about to play a record on her gramophone

Benjamin Britten working on his score
Benjamin Britten rehearsing and working on his score with Colin Graham in the Jubilee Hall. Aldeburgh Festival probably 1961. Date: 1961

The Pianola Piano advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for the Pianola Piano, depicting a lady at the keyboard surrounded by appreciative army officers for, in times of anxiety (it)

Lighter side of Life on an Armed Liner, WW1 by Arthur Watts
Sketches of scenes on board an armed liner during the First World War by the artist Arthur Watts who was in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

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

Allied soldiers relaxing with piano music, WW1
Allied soldiers relaxing with refreshments and music from a piano on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

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

Yehudi and Hephzibah Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin (1916 - 1999), violinist, pictured with his pianist sister, Hephzibah. Date: 1938

Advert for Verona metal furniture
A woman plays piano in a 1920s living room with metal furniture from the Chicago Hardware Foundry Company Date: 1926

Feodor Chaliapin Seated at his piano, 1913
The Russian opera singer Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (1873 1938) seated at a Bluthner piano in his studio in 1913. Date: 1913

Advert for Pianola Piano 1914
The ever-seasonable Pianola Piano. Pre-programmed music recorded on a roll. 1914

Sheet music cover, Little Scouts, a march for piano by Ezra Read (1862-1922). Depicting four boy scouts and a dog in front of a tent. Date: early 20th century

Womens Royal Air Force -- Rest Room
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women relaxing in the Rest Room -- two are dancing, another is playing the piano. Date: 1919-1920

A talented performer
A very little boy plays a grand piano from a raised piano stool. Two other small children look on in wonder. Date: 1875

Music conference lecture 1888
Conference of the national society of professional musicians. Mr. A.J Hipkins illustrating his lecture on the history of the pianoforte. Date: 1888

Sheet music cover, Let By-Gones Be By-Gones, with words and music by Joseph George Gilbert. With a portrait of Issy Bonn (Benjamin Levin, 1903-1977), British-Jewish actor, singer and comedian

Piano practicing song
A mother supervises her daughter as she practices the piano. A Practicing song by Laura E. Richards accompanies the picture. Date: 1892

Going Through the Course: Family musical gathering
A bald uncle implores his niece to play a polka on the piano at a family gathering. She declines, being only able to play Beethovens sonatas. Date: 1886

Cruvelli sisters
Marie and Sophie(1826-1907) Cruvelli(Cruvelli), German opera singers pose at a keyboard Date: 1855

Taste in 1854-Villikins and his Dinah in the drawing room
Young Lady(who ought to know better): Now, William, you are not low enough yet. Begin again at He took the cold pi-zen". Date: 1854

Victorian Puppets
Three Victorian puppets on a miniature stage, with all the props (aspidistra, piano, piano stool etc) necessary for a period melodrama. Date: 19th century

Max Reger at the Piano
MAX REGER German musician, famous for his variations, seated at the keyboard. Date: 1873 - 1916

Hello Sailor
A lively girl shows a bit of leg as she dances on a piano while it is being played by a sailor! Date: early 1930s

Baroness Leyonhillm
This benevolent looking old lady is Baroness Leyonhillm of Chinatown, patroness of the East London Seamens Mission. Date: early 1930s

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

Piano Lesson 1930S
A female piano teacher turns over the pages of the sheet music as little girl pupil plays the piece. Date: early 1930s

American Pianist and Composer Ernest Schelling
Ernest Schelling (1876-1939) - American Pianist, Composer, Conductor and Musical Director. Date: circa 1910

Man at the end of his tether with piano-playing singing wife
" Every Morning I feel like shooting." An American man seemingly at the end of his tether with the less-than-tuneful efforts of his enthusiastic piano-playing, singing wife

Ignacy Jan Paderewski - Polish pianist, composer, statesman
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) - Polish pianist, composer and statesman. Date: circa 1903

Alexander Ilyich Siloti - Russian Pianist Conductor Composer
Alexander Ilyich Siloti (1863-1945) - Russian Pianist Conductor Composer Date: 1904

Mark Hambourg - Russian-born pianist
Mark Hambourg (1879-1960) Russian-born pianist. Date: circa 1905

Two young children discuss the merits of piano size
" Do you like them big pianners better than the likkle uns Aurelia?" " No, Dolpaus, they take up to much room; an besides they don t make any more noise than the little uns

Dandy Pianist - a Wow with the Party Ladies
Botany - The Dandelion - a florid little man! A wow with all the ladies (up to a point!). A pianist, possibly modelled in part on popular Polish pianist Paderewski? Date: circa 1907

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