  Contact DetailsSchool of Art |
Musical InstrumentsMusical instruments were acquired to 'illustrate the life and art' of world civilisations. Among them is a Sarinda (an Indian fiddle), a New Guinea drum with a snakeskin tympanum, two African ivory war horns, and a South American violin with an armadillo shell forming the sound box. In 1933 the collection was enriched by Professor J. L. André Barbier's gift of a group of African musical instruments including a South African mbila (xylophone) with gourd resonators. Artist Collections | Art Pottery | Baskets | Bequests | Calligraphy | Ceramic Archive | Ceramic Figures | Ceramics | Classical Subjects in the 1920s | Collecting Contemporary Ceramics | Collecting Contemporary Prints | Colour Woodcuts | Drawings | Early British Studio Pottery | Gifts | Glass | The Great and the Good | Gulbenkian Collection | Highlights of the Collection | Illustrators of the 1860s | Lithography in the 1920s | Loans | Overview | Paintings | Photographs | Portraiture in the 1920s | Prints | Prints of the 1920s and 1930s | Private Press Books | Publications | The Historic and Retrospective Collection of Ceramics and Bronzes | Search | Special Collections | Watercolours | Weaponry | Welsh Folk Craft | World Craft collections Collections |
 |
