Sarinda India, 19th Century @ South Asia Exhibit, British Museum, London, 2019 ;
Yueqin ~ A lute wth a circular body and a short neck and four strings, from China ; photographed by Graeme Gibson @ Horniman Museum, London UK 2019 ;
An 1878 depiction by Settei Hasegawa of a woman playing the koto ; Library Of Congress ; Public Domain ;
Blind girl sing for a living in Jiufeng, China ; A likely southern yueqin; two strings, no large soundholes, long-neck ; There was also a three stringed version Sound hole for the instrument was a smaller diameter hole near the bridge ; c. 1960 ;
A Japanese woman playing a gekkin c. 1890
The Thomo is a braced musical bow that is played by the Basotho, this musical bow resembles the Xhosa Uhadi, and the Zulu ugubhu ; Frédéric Christol [1850–1933]: Au sud de l’Afrique ; Avec 150 dessins et croquis de l’auteur 1897 ; With 150 drawings and sketches by the author 1897 ; The New York Public Library Digital Collections ; Public Domain ;
A detail of the 12th century Song Dynasty painting [traditional Chinese: 韓熙載夜宴圖; simplified Chinese: 韩熙载夜宴图; pinyin: Hán Xīzaì Yèyàn Tú ~ Night Revels of Han Xizai] by Song Dynasty painter Gu Hongzhong depicting two dizi players, with three guan players and one paiban ;
The Ramsinga, as depicted in the book Les Hindoûs Volume II, by the Flemish artist Frans Balthazar Solvyns ~ A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings [1799], Sec. XI, No. 30. “A Ramsinga” ;
a pair of kangling and skull cup from a Tibetan banner representing attributes of Palden Lhamo ;
A performance of Gendang Beleq photographed in 1934 @ Tropen Museum, NL
Kebero – a single headed drum from Ethiopia photographed by Graeme Gibson ; Horniman Museum, London, UK 2019 ;
A 19th century Burmese watercolour depicting a musician playing a patalla ; Watercolour painting by an unknown Burmese artist depicting 19th century Burmese life ~ Text: The Patalla and CHIN-GWIN, Shelf-mark: Ms. Burm. a. 5 ;
A komuso performer playing a shakuhachi, Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs”, by J. M. W. Silver, Illustrated by Native Drawings, Reproduced in facsimile by Means of Chromo-lithography, published in London in 1867 ;
Myoan-ji shakuhachi fingering chart and notation ;
Honkyoku notation example first two lines of Kumoijishi 雲井獅子 ; handwritten notation by Kurahashi Yodo 倉橋容堂;
Illustration of four recorders from Martin Agricola’s “Musica instrumentalis Deutsch” [1529] page 16 ; translated as “German Musical Instruments” ;
Comiença el Libro primero dela declaraciõ de instrumentos ~ By Juan Bermudo 1555
Advertisement for S. S. Stewart’s Bass or Cello Banjo ~ Bass Banjo Advert 1898
Possible sanxian [left] and pipa, from a 762-827 A.D. A painting in the Mogao caves near Dunhuang―Grotto 46 Left interior wall, second panel. Also called cave 112 ;
A blind musician performing with an erhu; a sanxian is spotted behind him on the ground ; Two adult males and a boy ; Polish National Archives photographed Jan 1st 1930 ;
A musician who is a member of the “kavval” a sub-caste of the large Muslim caste of ‘Mirasis’ or singer/genealogists
his file has been provided by the British Library from its digital collections. Catalogue entry: IOSM Add.27255 ;
Ichiganken ~ A single stringed monochord plucked zither from Japan made of Kiri wood [paulownia tomentose] photographed by Graeme Gibson @ Horniman Museum, London, UK 2020 ;
Tanbura ~ Bowl Lyre, Horn of Africa, Somalia & Djibouti ~ photographed by Graeme Gibson @ Horniman Museum, London UK 2019 ;
Photo credited online to Émile Gsell [1838-1879] of a Cambodian woman playing a khloy [a fipple duct flute]. This photo is not included in Gsell’s 1880 book “Voyage de l’Égypte à l’indochina” [voyage from Egypt to Indochina], Photo taken 1860-1870 ;
Taus ~ photographed by Graeme Gibson @ Horniman Museum, London, UK 2019 ;
Ragammala a book and manuscript written in both Hindi and English. The English language description of a raga [ ] in the cursive hand written text ~ Photographed by Graeme Gibson for museumofworldmusic.com @ South Asian Exhibit, British Museum, London UK 2019 ;
Valiha ~ an idioglot tube zither of Madagascar ;
Photo credited online to Émile Gsell [1838-1879] of a Cambodian woman playing a chapei veng dong. This photo is not included in Gsell’s 1880 book “Voyage de l’Égypte à l’indochina”, although the subject has the same hairstyle and plays a similar chapei, and sits the same way. Photo taken 1860-1870 ;
Saung Gauk musician 1900s ;
Pandit Vassant Rai [ ] in pose with his custom modified fretless guitar ; rather then manually removing the frets ; the fingerboard was replaced with the polish steel finger plate from the sarod ; tuning and technique are reflected in his playing ~
A traditional Central Asian musician from the 1860s or 1870s, holding up his dayereh ;
Qilaat ~ A frame drum played by Inuit people in circumpolar North America, Alaska USA and Greenland ~ photographed by Graeme Gibson @ Native American Exhibit ~ British Museum, London UK 2019 ;
The cavaquinho is a small four stringed lute having its origins in Portugal but widely played in Brazil, Canary Islands , Capo Verde ~ photographed by Graeme Gibson @ Horniman Museum, London UK 2019 ;
Mbira is a plucked lamellophone it is played by the Shona people in Zimbabwe ~ photographed by Graeme Gibson @ Horniman Museum, London, UK 2019 ;
