Musical Instrument Collection

Mariachi crossing the street Beatles style, Mexico
Traditional Mariachi group crossing the street in Beatles style, Izamal, Yucatan, Mexico

Banjo, (B&W)

Leonard Bernstein Conducts
Leonard Bernstein, American conductor composer and pianist, conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in rehearsal at the St Pancras Town Hall, London. (Photo by Ian Showell/Getty Images)

Metropolitan Cathedral Pipe Organs
Metropolitan Cathedral Pipe Organ, view from bellow

Bagpipe Player
24th September 1955: A bagpipe player of Princess Louises Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders wearing the Sutherland tartan at Stirling in Scotland

Man with trumpet from Mariachi group, Mexico
Traditional mexican Mariachi group in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (MR)

Second Chorus
1940: American actor and dancer Fred Astaire (1899 -1987) holds a trumpet as he sits back to back with American actor Paulette Goddard (1911 - 1990)

Musical Mozarts
German composer Leopold Mozart (1719 - 1787) playing the violin accompanied by his seven year old son Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) on the harpsichord

Illustration, string quartet, four sitting men in tuxedos playing two violins, a viola and cello, front view

Illustration, mariachi band consisting of four guitarists in grey Mexican hats and matching suits, front view

Illustration, sitar and musical note

A kalungu, an African talking drum

On The Wallaby
circa 1850: A witch on a wallaby by Cruikshank. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Illustration, grand piano with lid propped up

Men In Boat
circa 1900: A group of men wearing bowler hats and playing instruments in a rowing boat. An English concertina on the left and a button accordion on the right

Duke In The Spotlight
10th February 1963: American jazz band leader and composer, Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974) at the piano at the Fairfield Hall, Croydon during a British tour

American barrel organ with inside mechanism, wood engravings, published 1888
American barrel organ with punched tape technique - Automatic musical instrument from the 19th century. Right side: The inside mechanism. Wood engravings, published in 1888

Ludwig Van Beethoven
German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827). (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Church organ engraving 1881
Le Monde Physique par Amedee Guillemin - Paris / Librairie Hachette et Cie 1881

Organ At Palace
circa 1929: The organ at Alexandra Palace, north London, believed to be the finest and largest concert in Europe. Built by Father Henry Willis in 1875, and rebuilt in 1929

Benny Goodman
American jazz clarinettist and band leader Benny Goodman (1909 - 1986). Original Publication: People Disc - HF0341 (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

Hunting trunk and french horn engraving 1881
Le Monde Physique par Amedee Guillemin - Paris / Librairie Hachette et Cie 1881

Digital illustration of brass trumpet

Studio shot of euphonium

Instruments
1923: Musical instruments belonging to the Savoy Orpheans Band, including saxophones, trumpets and a trombone. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Benny Goodman
24th June 1959: Benny Goodman (1909 - 1986), the American clarinettist and band leader known as the King Of Swing, at the Savoy Hotel during a short holiday. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Double Bass Player
circa 1908: Edwardian gentleman with his double bass. (Photo by W. & D. Downey/Getty Images)

Man holding tiny violin, close up of hands

Engraving of Civil Engineer John Smeaton
(Original Caption) 1792-John Smeaton (1724-1792), English Civil Engineer F. R. L. - Improved instruments used in navigation and astronomy. Engraving

Union Army Of Veteran Reserve Corps
(Original Caption) Union Army band of 9th or 10th Veteran Reserve Corps, U.S.A. Washington D.C. April 1865. BPA2# 3219

Carl Zeiss
(Original Caption) Carl Zeiss (1816-1888), German manufacturer of optical instruments. Undated photograph. BPA2# 5738

Cowboy Band from Kansas
(Original Caption) Cowboy band of Dodge City, Kansas, 1884. Engraving

Young Man Sitting In Victorian Room
(Original Caption) ca. 1890-Young man wearing a striped blazer in a Victorian room playing a balalaika. (Photo by AS400 DB/Bettmann Archive)

Marine Marching Band 1890
(Original Caption) Philip Sousa, the march king (center) as leader of U.S. Marine Band. It often played at the White House. Photo 1890

Ernest Orlando Lawrence @ Control Panel
(Original Caption) Ernest Orlando Lawrence, American physicist and inventor of the Cyclotron. Awarded the 1939 Nobel prize for physics. Undated photograph

Reclining Man Holding Condenser Rod
(Original Caption) View of a bed condenser used for the treatment of arteriosclerosis by high frequency electric currents. Invented by Jacques d'Arsonval. Photograph circa 1900

Litho. Of Wagner'S Wild Music Of Future
(Original Caption) Cartoon: "Wagner's Music of the Future." Undated lithograph

Rita Hayworth & Glenn Ford With Stellarium
(Original Caption) Astronomy is made simple by the Stellarium, an invention of Bruce Gallup's which makes its bow in Columbia's 1940 film, "The Lady in Question

Spike Jones, Damaso Perez Prado W/Instrum
(Original Caption) Bandleader/Comedian Spike Jones with bandleader Damaso Perez Prado. Undated photograph from the INP print file. Credit: Bettmann-UPI

James Watt Discussing In His Library
(Original Caption) Undated woodcut-James Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor, in his library in Glasgow

Spike Jones King Of The Cow Bells
(Original Caption) Spike Jones, king of the cow-bells, during a rehersal for television show, The colgate Comedy Hour Photograph, 1951. BPA2# 1536

Girl Dancing the "Charleston"
Harriet Fowler wins the "Charleston Contest" in the 1920's

Patient On Table Under Spherical Device
(Original Caption) 1905-Paris, France: Demonstration of radiotherapy in the Cochin Hospital

Demonstration Of Radiotherapy In Paris
(Original Caption) Demonstration of radiotherapy in Paris, after the discovery of radium in 1905. Undated photograph

W.D. Coolidge with Early X-Ray Tube
Doctor William David Coolidge adjusts an early version of his X-Ray tube in a laboratory

Marconi Spark Gap Instrument; Early Wire
(Original Caption) 12/4/1922-London, England: It is not generally known that in the London G. P. O. there is a wonderful collection of instruments used in the public service in bye-gone days

Japanese Jazz Band with Instruments
(Original Caption) 11/20/1923- Photo shows a Japanese jazz band. They are: Mrs. E. Yoshii, Mrs. Z. Thimizu, Mrs. K. Ochikawa, Mrs. H. Tabusa and Mrs. I. Nishi

Charles Cadman In His Composing Studio
(Original Caption) Ca. 1925-Hollywood, California- Charles Wakefield Cadman, American composer, in his Hollywood studio

Jazz Orchestra Playing in Venetian Pool
(Original Caption) 2/28/26-Coral Gables, Florida: In the beautiful Venetian Pool at Coral Gables, Fla

Gabriel Bereau has perfected an automatic violin which he has called the violinista. It is played in much the same way as the automatic piano

King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators
"King" Oliver was the cornet player and band leader who brought Louis Armstrong from New Orleans to Chicago, helping to make jazz a more widespread phenomenon

Mexican Girl With "Guiro, " An Instrument
(Original Caption) 3/3/1932-Catalina Island, CA: Elana Espinosa, a pretty Mexican girl who resides on Catalina Island, strumming her "guiro" or fish instrument

Alex Darion as One Man Band
(Original Caption) 8/18/1933-New York, NY-Not even the many-armed divinities of Oriental mythology could outdo Alex C. Darion when playing his unique one-man orchestra

Duke Ellington With His Band
(Original Caption) Duke Ellington (b.1899) with his band at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, during the production of "It Aint No Sin, " a 1934 musical. Photograph

Fred Waring And Lane Sisters
Band leader Fred Waring directs his orchestra as the Lane Sisters sing

Little Girls Watching Violinist
Two little girls stop to watch a violinist play on the sidewalk in the East Side of New York

Ruth Jones With Psychograph
(Original Caption) 4/9/1938- Chicago, Il: Want your head examined? Ruth Jones is not having a permanent here, although it looks like it

Man Directs Children Playing Instrument
(Original Caption) 5/8/1939-New York, NY: The famed Kaspar Quads of Passaic, NJ, who will celebrate their third birthday tomorrow, May 9th, are shown getting a swing lesson from Raymond Paige

Demonstrating Theodolite to Ship's Crew
(Original Caption) 6/25/1939-Boothbay Harbor, Maine- Chauncey Waldron, who will supervise the iceberg study on Commander Donald B

Spencer Tracy and Henry Ford
(Original Caption) 10/28/1939-Detroit, MI- Spencer Tracy and Henry Ford with Thomas Edison's instruments, which Ford collects

Couples Dancing to Guy Lombardo Orchestra
(Original Caption) Couples dancing to Guy Lombardo's orchestra, ca. 1940. Photograph

Tommy Dorsey's Band in Las Vegas Nights
(Original Caption) 1941- Tommy Dorsey and his band. On the far right in the last row is a very young and yet unknown Frank Sinatra. Movie Still from, "Las Vegas Nights"

Demonstration Of New Lie Detector
(Original Caption) 1/8/41-Washington, D.C.: E.A. Wildy (left), of the Treasury Secret Service, gives a demonstration of Uncle Sam's latest lie detector, using M.R

Entertainer Bill Robinson and His Band
From the 1943 film Stormy Weather

Women Marine Adjusting Cryptograph
US Marine Sergeant Norma Lindsay manipulates a cryptograph, an intricate cylindrical device on which letters of the alphabet are embossed for use in decoding communications

Couples Dancing at Steeplechase Park
(Original Caption) 6/11/1944-JAM SESSION.... There is even a corner for the hepcats at Steeplechase Park

Snake Charmer Charming His Cobra
(Original Caption) 10/30/1944-India-: A snake charmer with his cobra. The snakes have their fangs removed

Lena Horne Laughing And Holding Bass
(Original Caption) 6/22/1948-New York, NY: Lena Horne, singer, arriving at Grand Central Terminal in New York City

Seismometer
(Original Caption) View of a seismometer, a seismetric apparatus for determing the vertical shift during earthquakes. Undated photograph

Hospital Operating Room
Ca. 1900-Operating room in a Mobile, Alabama, hospital. The doctors and nurses pose before operating on a patient

Band Playing On Radio
(Original Caption) Spike Jones and his City Slickers during performance in early 1930's

Josephine Baker In Musical Skit
(Original Caption) Josophine Baker on stage in musical skit. Undated photograph

Surveyor Looking Through Instrument
(Original Caption) View of surveyor at work, 1920. He is shown here full length, looking through the eyepiece of a tripod-mounted instrument

Man Kneeling By Foucault'S Pendulum
(Original Caption) Undated-Photograph of man kneeling by a Foucault's Pendulum at the Prime Meridian. A clock counts down when the pendulum will be released

Musicians with Instruments
(Original Caption) Photo shows musicians, dressed in traditional native garb (nationality unknown), with their instruments. Undated

Indian Snake Charmer
Lithograph of an Indian snake charmer luring four cobras with his music

Iron Maiden
(Original Caption) The Iron Jungfrau. Torture instrument used by medieval court. Undated illustration

Engraved Portrait Of Ferdinand Magellan
(Original Caption) Illustrated portrait of Ferdinand Magellan (Fernao de Magalhaes, 1480-1521), Portugese navigator whose expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe

Engraving of Frog and Insect Musicians
(Original Caption) Illustration, "BREAKING UP OF OUR SUMMER CONCERT, " with the caption, "Good-by, old fellow

Medieval Illus. Of 3 Men Observing Sky
(Original Caption) Medieval astronomers during observations using astrolabe. 14th century miniature painting

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Engraving
Anthony van Leeuwenhoeck (1632-1723), Dutch linen draper and inventor of the microscope. Undated illustration

Chamber Music Group with Calligraphic Composition
(Original Caption) Music: Allegorical picture showing an 18th Century Chamber music group with calligraphic composition, reading: "Musick; Musick (sic) is an insearchable and excellent Art

18Th Century Watchmaker Working - Illus
(Original Caption) Illustration depicting Father Perrelet, a French watchmaker of the late 18th century, at work. Undated engraving

Ad For Phonograph W/Illus & Text
(Original Caption) Advertisement for the Edison "Concert" Phonograph. The illustration of the phonograph with sound horn is accompanied by explanatory text. Undated illustration

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