musical instruments

DCM 0604: Jean Daniel Holtzapffel Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Ebony, silver keys, ferrules.; 67.75 cm. Key Holes System: 8 keys, round flaps, pin in block, except low C#, C. Foot keys have conical leather plugs screwed on keys, in tubu... More

Musical Instruments - DCM 0106: Anonymous Whistle (Duct)

Instrument type: Whistle (Duct) Medium: Terracotta.; 10 cm. Key Holes System: 2 fingerholes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Left ear and left rear leg broken off and missing. Provenance: Traveling salesman,... More

DCM 0306: Boehm & Mendler Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Grenadilla, thinned, silver keys and ferrules, wood crutch.; 66.5 cm. Key Holes System: Boehm system, open G#, Schleif key. Mark Maximum: BOEHM & MENDLER / MÜNCHEN Mark Addi... More

Photo of DCM 1609: Anonymous Flute Swab - Public domain dedication

Instrument type: Flute Swab Medium: Mahogony(?) handle, black yarn swab head.; 33.4 cm. Provenance: Source not known. The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes a... More

Musical Instruments - DCM 1619: Anonymous Transvserse Flute

Instrument type: Transvserse Flute Medium: Bamboo, partially painted black, with painted area scratched or carved away for natural bamboo color.; 25.3 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Co... More

DCM 1655: Wood & Ivy Flute in C (Part only)

Instrument type: Flute in C (Part only) Medium: Rosewood(?), with brass liner, silver ferrule.; 6.45 cm. (as is) Mark Maximum: Wood & Ivy (cursive) / LATE / Geoe Wood (cursive) / NEW COMPTON STR. / 50 / SOHO /... More

DCM 1373: Claude Laurent Flute in C

All three sockets have safety hooks. Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Clear glass, frosted, fluted exterior. Silver keys and flanges.; 67.4 cm. Key Holes System: 6 keys, foot to C, round curved flaps with a... More

DCM 1518: I. Ziegler Flute in C

Lower joint socket is encircled with a decorative animal horn ring underneath a nickel silver ring. All possibly original or an early repair attempt. Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Ebony, ivory head, nicke... More

Photo of DCM 1506: Anonymous Flute in C - Public domain dedication

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Rosewood, nickel silver keys and ferrules, metal-lined head.; 65.4 cm. Key Holes System: 8 keys, modern style key cups, with pewter plugs over round metal plates for C#, C. ... More

DCM 0893: Jean Baptiste Tabard Flute in C

Foot joint had ivory register slide. Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Ivory, silver keys and ferrules. Head joint partially metal-lined with tuning slide.; 61.5 cm. Key Holes System: 5 keys, flat oval flaps... More

Photo of DCM 0036: Anonymous Flute in C - Public domain dedication

Received by DCM with "experimental flaring bell of brass on lower end." In fact, the 'bell' is a late 19c or early 20c cornet mute which had been jammed over the end of the foot joint. The small (tapered) end o... More

DCM 0530: Anonymous, North American Indian (Sioux) Whistle

DCM ledger: "Sioux Indian." Instrument type: Whistle Medium: Wood, quill flue cover, lashed with sinew (gut).; 57.7 cm. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: N. E. Carter, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, 15 Dec. 1925. The D... More

DCM 1052: Monzani Flute in E-flat

Instrument type: Flute in E-flat Medium: Boxwood, ivory cap and ferrules, brass keys.; 50.7 cm. Key Holes System: 4 keys, square flaps, pin in block. Mark Maximum: (crown) / MONZANI & Cº / 28. REGENT STT / PIC... More

DCM 0861: Anonymous, Central American Indian Whistle (Duct Flute)

DCM ledger: "Aztec Indian, Nahua." Instrument type: Whistle (Duct Flute) Medium: Terracotta.; 5.7 cm. Key Holes System: 0 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Parts (head and one limb) missing. Provenance... More

DCM 0474: Emil Rittershausen Flute in C

Head joint fully lined with a metal pipe which terminates as a tuning slide within the socket. With crutch. Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Grenadilla, silver-plated keys and ferrules, metal-lined head.; 6... More

[Various surgical instruments and apparatuses] / Jones sculp.

Plate CCCCXCI. Public domain scan of 18th-century scientific book, illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

DCM 0208: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute

Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Wood.; 66.1 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Six evenly spaced, unusually small fingerholes relative to most courting flutes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: F... More

DCM 0672: A. Osmanek Piccolo in D-flat

Instrument type: Piccolo in D-flat Medium: Boxwood, brass keys and ferrules, nickel silver hinge tubes.; 29.1 cm. Key Holes System: 6 keys, modern style key cups, post and rod. Mark Maximum: · A. OSMANEK · / S... More

Photo of DCM 1042: E. Forni Flute in C - Public domain dedication

Barrel has inset silver plate for initials, now obliterated. Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Grenadilla, nickel silver keys, ferrules, metal-lined head and blocks.; 79.8 cm. Key Holes System: 13 keys, mode... More

Style 17 - upright piano-forte designed and manufactured by Henry F. M...

Advertisement for pianos, showing piano in room. Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Music's charms. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Woman playing piano and man listening. Photo by Leo D. Weil. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Music Piano; Sentimental; Aged; Birthdays.

"Love's young dream". 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Two children at piano. Copyright by the Ullman Mfg. Co., New York.

Fitziu (at piano) - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Blackton family - Color separation negative, public domain

Photograph shows film director J. Stuart Blackton (1875-1941), his wife, actress and film director Paula Hilburn who is seated at a piano; and their two children, Violet Virginia Blackton (1910-1965) and Charle... More

[Violinist Emil] Telmanyi - Public domain portrait photograph

Public domain photograph, 1910s-1920s portrait, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A melody - Drawing. Public domain image.

Woman playing piano. H101695 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Musical instruments piano; Shelf.

Sophie Braslau - Public domain dedication image

Photo shows opera singer Sophie Braslau (1902-1935), a contralto who performed with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, playing piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and Jewish Women: A Comprehensive ... More

Olive Fremstad - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Swedish-American opera singer Anna Olivia Rundquist (stage name, Olive Fremstad) (1871-1951), seated at a piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Mor, lilla mor - gramophone disc, record label

Female vocal trio, with violin, flute, and piano Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Minuet - gramophone disc, record label

Violin solo, with piano Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Love's old sweet song - gramophone disc, record label

Violin solo, with piano Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

White House (gold piano), 9/20/28

Public domain image of musical performance, piano music, keyboard instrument, pianist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lightbrown home. Woman standing by piano in Lightbrown house

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Piano trio. Portrait of piano trio VI

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[Old man with violin, no. 1]

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[Portrait of Lawrence Brown, Johnny Hodges, and Adele Girard, Turkish ...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottli... More

DCM 1026: Moritz-Max Mönnig Flute in C

DCM ledger, Valderpoort letter to DCM, 23 July 1930: "...the only Schwedler-Reform Flute entirely made of metal. This flute was made for Mr. Schwedler by Mönnig in Leipzig as a mark of gratitude. However as Mr.... More

Jeeter Gentry, Elmer Thompson and Fiddlin' Bill Hensley, Asheville, No...

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Members of Southwestern University band unloading instruments from tru...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

White House gold piano replaced with new instrument. Washington, D.C.,...

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[Fats Waller, three-quarter length portrait, seated at piano, facing f...

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Bedros Haroutunian holding saz, facing front, portrait, photograph

Photograph caption: "Saz, a 3-stringed plucked instrument, very old in Armenia. Owned by Mr. Bedros Haroutunian . . . (No player located)." Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Bedros Haroutunia... More

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Miss Evelyn Rieke, violin soloist at the meeti...

Public domain image of musical performance, piano music, keyboard instrument, pianist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of Joe Marsala and Adele Girard, Hickory House, New York, N....

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 226 (gottlieb assignment) 226 (assign... More

Mike Hlad's instrument shop, Lyons, Illinois; Slavo Hlad's Balkan Musi...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1, Eisenhower expressway; 2-3, Michael Hlad, in kitchen of his shop/h... More

Musical Instruments - DCM 0659: Joseph Ebner Flageolet

DCM ledger states that Ebner was a "dealer, not maker." This instrument has a wide ivory mouthpiece, not containing the usual round windway, but extremely flattened to appear like a (bassoon) double reed. Instr... More

DCM 1040: Anonymous Walking Stick Flute in C

Pommel threaded into head joint. Both the single key (D#) and the lateral terminating vent hole are decoratively elevated. The head and body sections have plain brass ferrules at both ends. The bottom staff sec... More

DCM 1137: Cornelius Ward Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Cocus, silver keys and ferrules.; 66.3 cm. Key Holes System: Ward's patent system, conical bore, see DCM 572. Modern post and rod key design, with the exception of one ivory... More

Autels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique (Altars, Tripods and Musical...

after etchings by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, draughtsman and engraver, 1730-1809, based on drawings by Pierre Adrien Pâris, painter, architect, draughtsman, decorator, and engraver, 1745-1819, originally publish... More

DCM 0719: Claude Laurent Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Frosted clear glass. Cap, rose-cut (faceted) rock crystal with hemisphere of silver for backing. Silver keys and ferrules.; 62.9 cm. Key Holes System: 3 keys, including D#, ... More

Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois; Gilda Sottile and Pa...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-9, Siegfried Shuh at home, his living room with instruments (harp, ... More

Violin by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1700, "Ward"

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Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois; Gilda Sottile and Pa...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-9, Siegfried Shuh at home, his living room with instruments (harp, ... More

Home of Rudy Wacek, zither player, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-7, Various views of the living room at the home of zither player Rudy Wacek, 3133 N. Nottingham, Chicago; 8-20; Various zithers built by Mr. Wacek, All instruments were designed a... More

Violin by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1699, "Castelbarco"

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John Hemonas, bouzouki player, 4450 N. Kedzie, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1, 9, left to right, Peter Bartis (fieldworker), John Hemonas, Angelo... More

Jørgen Hyland, Hardanger fiddler, Evanston, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-3, embroidered bell pull at home of Jan Harry and Josefa Andersen, ... More

Mike Hlad's instrument shop, Lyons, Illinois; Slavo Hlad's Balkan Musi...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1, Eisenhower expressway; 2-3, Michael Hlad, in kitchen of his shop/h... More

Rudy Wacek, zither player, Chicago, Illinois; Appalachian mural, Chica...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-6a, basement workshop of Rudy Wacek; 7-9a, Rudy holding home-made z... More

Rudy Wacek, zither player, Chicago, Illinois; Appalachian mural, Chica...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-6a, basement workshop of Rudy Wacek; 7-9a, Rudy holding home-made z... More

Five finger exercises - Public domain American sheet music, 1880

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Rosecrans' new thorough-base method - American sheet music, 1870-1885

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

[Taoist service altar with musical instruments for monks to use]

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 83. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

Charlie Chaplin in the vagabond / Greenwich Litho. Co. N.Y.

Motion picture poster for "The Vagabond" starring Charlie Chaplin, showing him playing a fiddle for a woman washing clothes in a washtub. "Mutual Chaplin Specials." Copyright 1916 by Lone Star Corporation. Pur... More

Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1703, Wurlitzer catalog of musica...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 4227 (General) Information slip included (General) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Viola by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1690, "Tuscan-Medici"

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Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1717, Wurlitzer catalog of musica...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 7569 (General) Information slip included (General) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Method for the violin - Public domain American sheet music, 1873

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Eight daily studies - Public domain American sheet music, 1877

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

La Lutte Artistique / Quadrille (The Artistic Struggle / Quadrille)

printed by Guillet, Paris, lithographer (artist notes) French (artist nationality) genre painter, illustrator and etcher (artist role) Recto: l. l. (signed) J Worms ; u. c.: La Lutte Artistique / Quadrille; l. ... More

Vocal Exercises for Baritone & Bass

Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1687, Wurlitzer catalog of musica...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 4588 (General) Information slip included (General) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1690, Wurlitzer catalog of musica...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 5888 (General) Information slip included (General) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1731, Wurlitzer catalog of musica...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 7081 (General) Information slip included (General) Public domain photograph of violin, string musical instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American man giving piano lesson to young African American wo...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 363. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in... More

Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1698

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Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1715, Wurlitzer catalog of musica...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 6270 (General) Information slip included (General) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1723, Wurlitzer catalog of musica...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 5887 (General) Information slip included (General) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Folk musical instruments including homemade horns, homemade drum, and...

Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Forms part of: Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the... More

Viola by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1727, "Cassavetti"

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Viola by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1727, "Cassavetti"

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Viola by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1727, "Cassavetti"

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Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1729, Wurlitzer catalog of musica...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 6311 (General) Information slip included (General) Public domain photograph of violin, string musical instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Violin by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris, ca. 1871

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Violin by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris, ca. 1871

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Violin by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1704, "Betts"

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Violoncello, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1701, Wurlitzer catalog of m...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 7139 (General) Information slip and negative of back included (General)

Violoncello, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1701, Wurlitzer catalog of m...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 7139 (General) Information slip and negative of back included (General)

Muzykal'nye instrumenty i muzykanty. Muzykal'nye instrumenty

Photograph shows several stringed instruments and a frame drum. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡...,1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 83.

Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1713, Wurlitzer catalog of musica...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 3017 (General) Information slip included (General) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1722, Wurlitzer catalog of musica...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 4651 (General) Information slip included (General) Public domain photograph of violin, string musical instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1722, Wurlitzer catalog of musica...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 5944 (General) Information slip included (General) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1722, Wurlitzer catalog of musica...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 5944 (General) Information slip included (General) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1732, Wurlitzer catalog of musica...

Wurlitzer catalog no. 6303 (General) Information slip included (General) Public domain photograph of violin, string musical instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

La gamme et L'etude d'arpg̈es - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Portuguese hymn -- Shirland, a favorite hymn -- Bright cherished star

System for the piano - Public domain American sheet music, 1872

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Guide for the young pianist - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Winner's American instructor for the German accordion

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

[Calculating device for multiplication using circular disks]

Illus. in: The description and use of two arithmetick instruments. London : Printed by M. Pitt, 1673. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washing... More