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Two kitten playing on piano keyboard, (B&W)

Salt Lake City - Great Organ in the Mormon Tabernacle
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - Great Organ in the Mormon Tabernacle Date: circa 1901

Spinet - this lovely example with its six-legged stand was made in London by Stephen Keene at the Sign of the Virginal on Threadneedle Street in the 17th century

The Empress Harpsichord - made for the Empress Marie Theresa. The strings are plucked by quills rather than struck by hammers

Dulcimer - a variety of the psaltery, has been in use from very early times. Represented on Assyrian monuments and mentioned in texts from the time of Nebuchadnezzar

Clavicytherium (Upright Spinet)
Clavicytherium - A fine specimen of a rare keyboard instrument - probably the oldest in existence from the early 16th century

Clavichord - A forerunner of the pianoforte, the clavichord was a stringed instrument derived from the dulcimer by the addition of a keyboard

Bible Regal - A small portable organ, which when folded resembles a large bible! Produces a very harsh tone due to the short nature of the pipework

Master Ivor Keys at the organ of St Marys Parish church, Littlehampton, Sussex, where he is voluntary organist. He has played the piano since the age of 4. 28th April 1930

North America, USA, WA, Redmond computer keyboard
North America, USA, WA, Redmond, computer keyboard

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Canada, Alberta, Calgary: Fort Calgary Historic Park, Antique Organ

Mendelssohns organ at Christ Church, Newgate Street. 20 October 1922

Scottish musicians representing Ce├▓las at Glasgow Green
Scottish musicians representing Ceolas at Glasgow Green. Ceolas is a music and dance summer school held in South Uist. This particular event took place during the 20th Commonwealth Games held in

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Dog - Parson Jack Russell Terrier at a piano keyboard wearing dark glasses Date:

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Dog - Parson Jack Russell Terrier at a piano keyboard wearing dark glasses Date:

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Cat - Grey Tabby at a piano keyboard Date:

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Cat - Grey Tabby at a piano keyboard Date:

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Dog - Parson Jack Russell Terrier at a piano keyboard Date:

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Dog. Parson Jack Russell Terrier at a piano keyboard Digital Manipulation Date:

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Cat - Grey Tabby at a piano keyboard Date:

Maurice Ravel (right) with Nijinsky at the piano on the stand of which is the score of Daphnis and Chloe, 1912
RAVEL AND NIJINSKY, 1912. Maurice Ravel (right) with Nijinsky at the piano on the stand of which is the score of " Daphnis and Chloe, " 1912

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Dog - Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever 7 week old puppy at piano keyboard Date:

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Dog - Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever 7 week old puppy at piano keyboard Date:

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Dog - Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever 7 week old puppy at piano keyboard Date:

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Dog - Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever 7 week old puppy at piano keyboard Date:

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DOG. Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever puppy ( 7 weeks old ) at piano keyboard. Date:

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CAT - Grey tabby cat at a piano keyboard. Digital Manipulation Date:

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DOG. Parson Jack Russell Terrier at a piano keyboard. Digital Manipulation Date:

German clavichord, 17th century (top), Italian harpsichord, 17th century, and diagrams of harpsichord
CLAVICHORD & HARPSICHORD. German clavichord, 17th century (top), Italian harpsichord, 17th century, and diagrams of harpsichord and clavichord actions (bottom)

American songwriter. Berlin playing the piano for American servicemen during World War II
IRVING BERLIN (1888-1989). American songwriter. Berlin playing the piano for American servicemen during World War II

Their Evening Hymn. Chromolithograph after painting by the English artist Margaret Isabel Dicksee (1858-1903) published 1892. Young girl plays keyboard music (harpsichordja) to her aged grandmother

Girl at the Piano - Overture to Tannhauser (c1868-1869) detail. Painting by Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) French Post-Impressionist painter

A Young Woman playing a Harpsichord, c1659. Dutch interior with girl at keyboard sight-reading from an open music book. Jan Steen (1626-1679) Dutch painter

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), c1763. Mozart at the age of seven seated at the keyboard

A woman at the Piano 1904. Woman in blue dress at piano by an open window. Felix Vallotton (1865-1926) Swiss painter and printmaker

Le The a l Anglaise (Tea served in the English fashion in the salons of the Four Mirrors, Palace of the Temple, Paris, 1764). On the left the young Mozart sits at the clavichord

Woman using typewriter by American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes (1819-1890). Forerunner of 20th century machine, keys had piano action

Young Girls at the Piano. One girl is at the keyboard while the other leans against the upright piano looking at the music being played. Pierre Renoir (1841-1919) French mpressionist artist

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Austrian composer. Mozart aged 7, in gala dress, standing by keyboard. Anonymous. Mozarteum, Salzburg

Pianist at the keyboard. 19th century lithograph

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Austrian composer. Mozart at the keybord. From engraving of 1787

Young musician at the keyboard. Thought by some to be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

The Mozart Family (1780-1781). Leopold (1719-1787) with his daughter Maria-Anna, Nannerl (1851-1829), and son Wolfgang Amadaeus (1756-1791) at the keyboard

Title page of Clavierstucke verschiedener Art, 1765, by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) German musician and composer, second son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Klaviersteucke Keyboard Music

Bellows of a large organ, showing blowers working the bellows. Woodcut from Michael Praetorius Syntagma Musicum, 1615-1620

Man playing a portable organ while his wife operates the bellows. After an engraving by Israel van Mecken, German, late fifteenth century

The Personification of Music from Gregor Reisch Margarita Philosophica, Strassbourg, 1508. In left foreground man plays a portable organ, above him is a man playing a clarsach or Celtic harp

Young woman tuning a grand piano. Piano tuning was considered a suitable occupation for a young lady forced to earn a living. Wood engraving, 1887

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