Musical instrument

140 artworks

Pair of clappers

Egypt, 1550

Table Bell with Arm of the Spanish Noble Family Bernaldo de Quiros

Alberghetti Foundry, 1550

Qin (Seven-stringed zither)

Unknown, 1571

Frame for a gong with a bronze gong suspended by a cord; mallet hanging

Charles Lang Freer, 1615

Zither (qin)

China, 1634

Qin

Prince Lu, 1634

Vielle à roue

Pajot of Jánzat, 1700

Vielle à roue

Pajot of Jánzat, 1700

Lutina

Francesco Presbier, 1736

Mandolin

Giovanni Battista, 1785

Mandoline

Giovanni Battista, 1785

Lyre Guitar or Lirachitara

M. C. Mousset, 1795

Pianoforte

George Gilfert, 1800

Guitar

Fernando Theze, 1855

Vielle à Roue (Hurdy-Gurdy)

Jacques Decante, 1858

Piano

Designer: Henry William Batley; Manufacturer: James Shoolbred & Co.; Manufacturer: Collard & Collard, 1878

At the Circus: The Bareback Rider (Au Cirque: Écuyère)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1888

Manxman Piano

Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott, 1897

Whistle

Luba artist, 1900

Flute

Nuna, 1901

Table knocker from the Paradise Club

Paradise Club, American, founded 1919, 1910

Table knocker from the Paradise Club

Unknown, 1910

Female Caryatid Drum (Pinge)

Senufo, 1930

New Yorker electric guitar

Designer: Attributed to Victor Smith; Manufacturer: National Guitar Company, 1937