• Minstrels at the medieval festival in Aiguèze, Gard. June 2009.
  • Hurdy-gurdy player, Aiguèze, Gard. June 2009.
  • Drummers in Napoleonic uniform, Roquemaure. Feb. 2010.
  • My good friend Vincent - writer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. July 2009.
  • I love this picture because every single person is smiling! Lavender festival in Valensole, Var, July 1998.
  • A traditional Provençal band during the grape harvest festival in Chusclan, Gard. October 2007.
  • The Provençal tambourinaire plays a tambourin and a galoubet. Chusclan, October 2009.
  • Singing in the vineyards during the grape harvest festival in Chusclan, famous for its Côtes-du-Rhône wines. October 2009.
  • A barrel organ player in Chusclan. October 2009.
  • Animated figures on a huge barrel organ. Roquemaure, 2010.
  • Mural in Chicago. June 1987.
  • A musical front door in Brussels. 1981.
  • This angel stands near the Grand-Place in Brussels. 1981.
  • Stoic as ever, a British audience braves the rain at a summer concert in the grounds of Kenwood House, London. 1998.
  • A whole family tries out a piano at the British Music Fair in London. 1990.
  • A couple of DJs demo their skills - and some new gear - at the SIEL audio show in Paris. 2007.
  • Electronic percussion pad, SIEL audio show, Paris. 2007.
  • DJ record deck. SIEL audio show, Paris. 2007.
  • Disco evening, Chamonix. 2001.
  • Ravers, Chamonix, 2001.
  • Young posers in a Croydon disco, South London. 1999.
  • Mixing desk, SIEL audio show, Paris. 2007.
  • Tweaking the sound... SIEL audio show, Paris, 2007.
  • Another mixing desk... SIEL audio show, Paris, 2007.
  • Hanging speaker cluster, SIEL audio show, Paris. 2007.
  • Headbanger at a rock festival at Charlton FC stadium, London, 1976.
  • D'you think they're twins? British Music Fair, London, 1987.
  • You can't start too early! Music shop in Denmark Street, London, 1988.
  • Bemused... by the Allegri String Quartet, Barbican foyer, London, 1993.
  • Initiation to the piano - British Music Fair, London, 1990.
  • Medieval music score with square musical notation displayed in Seville cathedral. 1996.
  • The organ of Seville Cathedral. 1996.
  • The pipe chamber of the organ of Wimborne St Giles church, Dorset. 1997.
  • A natural horn (i.e. without valves) composed of a length of hosepipe with a mouthpiece at one end and a plastic funnel at the other. Schools Prom, Royal Albert Hall, London, 1991.
  • Galician pipers, Saint-Jean-du Gard, 2005.
  • Friendly buskers in the Paris métro (with a not-so-amused passenger hiding the double-bass). 2007.
  • A musical saw player busking in Paris, 1976.
  • This guy was busking right outside my front door (recessed) in the King's Road, London. 1977.
  • "Jimmy the Jubilee Busker" tap dancing opposite the Peter Jones store in the King's Road, London. It was 1977, the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. This guy was already doing this in the late Sixties but he made the most of the occasion!
  • The Salvation Army playing Christmas carols in Oxford Circus, London. 1977.
  • An amateur choir performing in the church of Marguerittes, a village near Nîmes. 2009.
  • The London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, London, 1998.
  • Detail of rotary valve bass tuba. 2009.
  • Vincent's hands in action on his guitar. 2009.
  • Fingering an alto sax. 2009.
  • Close-up of a piccolo. 1988.
  • Bow action and left-hand vibrato movement on a cello.
  • Classical guitar playing. 1992.
  • Indian dancer - one of a series of pictures showing traditional dance movements. 2008.
  • Another one in the series. 2008.
  • Gamelan orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, London. 1998.
  • Oud player in Marrakesh, Morocco. 1995.
  • We don't see many female jazz double-bass players, do we? This one was at the 1998 Calvi Jazz Festival in Corsica.
  • The kind of atmospheric picture I really like. 1981.
  • Silhouette of a soprano sax player. 1992.
  • I was only taking pictures of the trumpet, but young Mishka got curious and settled in the warmth of the lights. 1985.
  • An early trial with Photoshop effects on this straight shot of an alto sax. 2003.
  • Detail of a contrabass tuba. 2005.
  • The tubing of a contrabass tuba. Brass instruments are very photogenic, but a bit tricky to photograph as they reflect everything, including the photographer - the solution is to use a "light tent" (white bedsheets) and shoot through a gap. 2005.
  • This xylophone and the next three pictures were shot for an instrument catalogue. 1989.
  • Detail of a bassoon. 1989.
  • Cello head. 1989.
  • Contrabass head and scroll. 1989.
  • Inherited from my grandmother, this mother-of-pearl brooch is 5 cm long. 2010.
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