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Original pictures (dated)

Robert Braunche Brass 1364
Nuremberg Town Band 1500
Trumpets & Sackbut 1538
Crumhorn players 1551
Female Sackbut Player
Leuven 1564
Graz 1568
Trumpeter 1568
Graz 1568
Bermondsey 1569
Antwerp 1582
Spring Picnic - Lucas van Valkenborch 1587
Brussel 1594
Leuven 1594
Amsterdam 1604
Antoon Sallaert 1615
Dresden 1709
Hautbois Du Roi 1715
Feldmusik 1720
Regimental Bands 1750s
City of London Waits 1761
King's Lynn Yeomanry 1782
George III sea-bathing
City of London Waits 1805
A Wait 1815
Christmas Waits
Punch cartoon 1881
Lincoln Waits pictured 1908

Original pictures (undated)

Young J S Bach
Carfax Conduit
Doncaster Mansion House
Dunmow Flitch
Gawthorpe Hall
Musicians at a Florentine wedding
German Stadtpfeifers
King Henry VIII's Wind Band
Brugge
Poland
17th century Waits
Johan Ambrosius Bach
Gabriel Schütz
18th century waits
Leicester Waits
Bartholomew Johnston, Wait
Geordy Sime of Dalkeith
Germersheim

Photographs

Alnwick Wait
Altarnun
Brugge Bellforte
Chains
Thomas Crawshaw
Crying Christmas
Doncaster Mansion House
Ediswan Light Bulb
Ely Waits
Gloucester Waits
Great Yarmouth Custom House
King's Lynn Waits' Gallery
Leeds Civic Hall
Leeds Lysarden
Lincoln Waites
Mallorca Ministrils
Newark Waits' Badges
Norwich Lysard
Norwich Music House
Ripon Town Hall
York Sherriff's Riding 2007
Stadspijpers van s-Hertogenbosch
Stadtpfieffers of Prague
Stamford Town Hall Waits' gallery
St Mary's, Beverley
Thomas Coward
The Vekter of Trondheim
The York Waits December 2000

Illustrations from James Merryweather's book, York Music.

Drawings by Anthony Barton of 16th-17th century dress

For more pictures of early instruments, especially curtals (dulcians), visit Hans Mons' splendid Dulcian Website.

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