Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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A special loan exhibition of musical instruments, manuscripts, books, portraits, and other mementoes of music and musicians, formed to commemorate the tercentenary of the granting by King James I of a charter of incorporation to the Worshipful company of musicians in 1604 .., 1904

40 lines. Read by computer on 1 October 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

1Percussion.
3917. Drum, large Tambourine and Case. Lent by Col. T. B. Shaw-Hellier.
5c. 1750.
7918. Tabor Pipe and Drum. Lent by the Rev. F. W. Galpin.
9919. Xylophone, used in Band of 4th Dragoon Guards. Lent by Col. T. B. Shaw-Hellier.
111824.
13920. Typophone by V. Mustel, Paris. The sound is obtained from steel tuning forks fixed on resonators, dampers being attached to the bars and resonators. Lent by Col. T. B. Shaw-Hellier.
15921. Large Military Tambourine. Lent by Col. T. B. Shaw-Hellier
17c. 1750.
19922. Tenor Drum. Lent by Col. T. B. Shaw-Hellier. c. 1735.
21923. Pair of small Kettledrums. Lent by Col. T. B. Shaw-Hellier. c. 1735.
23924. Pipe and Tabor and two sets of Bells worn on the knees of the Morris Dancers.—Belonged to Thomas Humphries, of Witney Oxon., and was played by him at most of the Morris Dances in the villages and towns of Oxfordshire for nearly 40 years. Lent by Mr. W. Taphouse.
25c. 1820.
27925. Bass Drum from the Battlefield of Waterloo (7th—Queen's Own—Hussars). Lent by Messrs. Mahillon & Co.
29926. Sistrum, Græco-Roman. Lent by the Rev. F. W. Galpin.
31927. Glass Harmonica, English. Lent by the Rev. F. W. Galpin. 1800.
33928. Nail Harmonica, German, with bow. Lent by the Rev. F. W. Galpin.
35929. Keyed Glockenspiel. Lent by the Rev. F. W. Galpin.
37930. Old Drum, with Tudor Arms painted on it. Lent by Mr. Seymour Lucas, R.A.
39931. Side Drum, Italian.—Used by the Papal Guard of Pope Innocent X., 1644-55, whose Coat of Arms is on side. Lent by Mr. C. Van Raalte.

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