Stringed Collection (page 7)

Illustration, Hassan by James Elroy Flecker
Illustration to Hassan (The Story of Hassan of Baghdad and How he Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand), a verse drama by James Elroy Flecker, with illustrations by Thomas Mackenzie

Giovanni Battista Doni, Italian musicologist
Giovanni Battista Doni (1594-1647), Italian musicologist who studied ancient music. He changed the name of the tonic note Ut, renaming it Do after his own family name. Seen here at the age of 50

Boy scouts of Ponsonby Troop, New Zealand, in hut
Group photo, boy scouts of Ponsonby Troop, Auckland City, New Zealand, seen here in their hut. Date: early 20th century

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

Violin recital by a British Army Sergeant, WW1
Violin recital by a British Army Sergeant, by W Bernard Reid, exhibited 1916-1938

WW2 poster, G R Notes are the Key Notes
WW2 poster, G R [Goods Received?] Notes are the Key Notes of harmonious store keeping. Wrong information and careless handling causes discord. Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

String and wind instrument manufacture, 1855
The interior of the factory of Pierre Louis Gautrot, showing the manufacture of wind and stringed musical instruments in 1855. Date: 1855

Egyptian viol
An Egyptian single-stringed viol, with bow

Blind Japanese musicans, 1864
Three blind Japanese musicians. One plays a koto, the other a samisen. Date: 1864

Musician with Shamisen, Japan
Musician with Shamisen (a three-stringed instrument), Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Woman playing a Koto, Japan
Woman playing a Koto, the national musical instrument of Japan, usually with 13 strings. Date: circa 1890s

Street singer with shamisen, Japan
Street singer with shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument), Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Street musicians, Japan
Two street musicians, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Two geishas, stove and shamisen, Japan
Two geishas, stove and shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument), Japan. Date: circa 1890s

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

Geisha with shamisen, Japan
Geisha with shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument), Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Geishas dancing and playing music, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Turkish musicians, Turkey
Five Turkish musicians, Turkey. Date: circa 1870

A shamisen player, lighting her pipe
A Japanese lady in traditional costume lays her shamisen(a musical instrument with three strings, also written samsin), to one side, so she can light her kiseru or pipe, aided by another woman

Three girls playing shamisens, a Japanese musical instrument
An ascending scale: three Japanese girls of difference sizes wear traditional costume and play their shamisens(a musical instrument with three strings, also written samisen)

A lady playing a shamisen, a Japanese musical instrument
A Japanese lady in traditional costume plays a shamisen (also written samsin), a musical instrument with three strings

A Japanese tseng or dulcimer

The shamisen, a Japanese musical instrument
The shamisen(also written samsin), a Japanese musical instrument with three strings

Theatrical perfomer, Japan
Theatrical perfomer with musical instrument, riding a sea dragon, 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

The Rajahs daughter by F. P Stephanoff
An oriental lady dreamily plucks a stringed instrument outdoors

A kousser, a Japanese musical instrument
A kousser, a Japanese stringed musical instrument

A kin and A se: two Asian musical instruments
A kin and a che(also written se), two stringed instruments from the Far East

Indian guitar
The bina, or Indian guitar. The elaborate workmanship of the body can be seen, as well as the profile of the instrument

Instruments of the Far East
A variety of stringed and wind instruments from the Far East. A Chinese organ, flagolet, oboe and trumpet are shown

Harlequin and Scaramouche
Harlequin illustration, showing Harlequin dancing to Scaramouches musical accompaniment. Date: 1923

Scaramouche playing his lute
Harlequin illustration, showing Scaramouche sitting under a tree, playing his lute. Date: 1923

Ladies orchestra, 1875
An orchestra of musical ladies delights an audience of gentlemen with their playing. In addition to the more usual stringed instruments

Franz Van Mieris - 2
FRANZ VAN MIERIS Dutch painter from Delft who also played the guitar or some such stringed instrument as the shades of night descended on the landscape... Date: 1635 - 1681

Japanese theatrical performer holding a Shamisen. Date: circa 1920s

Two European girls dressed as Geishas playing music (on a Shamisen-style instrument) during the tea ceremony. Date: circa 1910s

Japanese Geisha standing with her Traditional Shamisen Date: circa 1904

Japan - Woman in a kimono playing a traditional Koto
Japan - Woman in a kimono playing a traditional 13-stringed Koto. Date: circa 1907

Japan - Three Geisha Girls playing traditional instruments - two on drums and one playing the Shamisen. Date: circa 1904

Japan - Japanese Dancing girl and Shamisen player. Date: circa 1904

Japanese woman holding a shamisen
Japanese woman in traditional costume holding a shamisen. Date: circa 1904

Wandering Algerian musician
Itinerant Algerian musician playing a local three-stringed guitar-type instrument. Date: circa 1910s

Lebanon - Two Bedouin Musicians playing masenqo
Lebanon - Two Bedouin Musicians, both playing the masenqo. Date: circa 1910s

Sarah Bernhardt in Le Passant - playing a Lute
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) in Le Passant (play by Coppee) - playing a Lute. Date: circa 1895

Unusual woman playing a small stringed instrument
Slightly unusual postcard showing a woman with long dark flowing locks strumming away at a small lute. A slightly deranged gaze to boot... Date: 1907

Harpist - Mavis Shellshear - displaying admirable pluck! Date: circa 1910s

East African Jewish Bedouin Musician in Jerusalem, Israel. Playing a masenqo, a single-stringed bowed lute commonly found in the musical traditions of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Date: circa 1920s

Maxim Gorky, Russian Writer with a Gusli Player
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Maxim Gorky) (1868-1936), Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist

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