antique lithograph entitled "Musical instruments" composed of a central image and several colored vignettes. Published between the 1850s and 1880s for educational purposes for young children. Shipped well protected. The central composition represents the interior of a performance hall seen from the stage, a large organ in the background framing a choir and a conductor facing a large audience, the theater curtains partially open revealing the sculpted architecture of the stage and the music stands in the foreground. In medallions and vignettes all around appear scenes of popular and village music: at the top left a dance scene accompanied by a musette, at the top right a group around a hurdy-gurdy, at the bottom right a living room with piano and harp and several people gathered around the pianist, at the bottom left a barrel organ player surrounded by curious people. Several technical boxes show piles of instruments arranged in still life, one located at the top center presenting brass and military instruments, another at the bottom center showing the ordinary composition of a lyric orchestra with violins, timpani, bass drum and woodwinds. Between the scenes are didactic plates illustrating mouthpieces, mouthpieces and reeds, a series of small views identifying flageolet, bell, tambourine de basque, and simple anatomical diagrams illustrating the organs of the voice such as lungs and larynx. Various printed legends accompany each vignette to name the instruments and indicate the different ways of producing sound; the whole alternates views of human groups in musical situations, isolated instrumental representations and orchestral compositions, all on a slightly tinted background which unifies the board.

This is an educational board dedicated to the study and classification of musical instruments and sound situations. The document visually organizes the instrumental families and their uses: scenes of popular use (musette, hurdy-gurdy), mechanical and traveling devices (barrel organ), orchestral personnel and military instruments, and organological details (mouthpieces, mouthpieces, reeds) allowing comparison of timbre and mode of sound production. There is also an insertion on vocal physiology which links voice production to aerophone instruments, showing the didactic approach aimed at explaining the nature of sound and its variations depending on materials and forms. This type of board aims as much at visual identification as at functional understanding of instruments, by relating practice contexts, ensemble formation and technical classification (cordophones, aerophones, membranophones, idiophones) in order to assist comparative observation and musical teaching.

Please look carefully at the photos to identify any defects in the lithography. Double board with original vertical central fold. Some stains and tears are possible. Used condition. Double board (vertical central fold).

This plate will be of interest to the collector and researcher in organology as well as the lover of educational lithographs illustrating families of instruments; it is also aimed at enthusiasts of music history, orchestra and ethnomusicology seeking representations of chordophones, aerophones, membranophones and idiophones in an illustrated corpus. There you will find useful references for instrumental classification, musical pedagogy, military music, popular instrumental practices (hurdy-gurdy, musette, barrel organ), orchestral training (strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion), and elements of vocal anatomy; the search terms such as orchestra, organ, piano, guitar, popular guitar, castanets, drum, saxhorn, traditional instruments and salon music are integrated naturally into the description, which makes it possible to reach queries centered on musical iconography, pedagogical illustration of the 19th century and didactic lithography.

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