Europe history: Street entertainers
'one-person-band'
One person bands using at least a drum and pandean pipes (pan-pipes). | |||||
1400 France | 1910 illustration from 'Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed., vol. 20)’ New York, USA |
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before 1814 France |
1807 France |
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19th century Italian player |
fashion plate | 1815 France |
1815 Germany | 1814 Signor Rivolta (from his advertisement) in England |
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Signor Rivolta worked as a one-person-band for at least 16 years from January 1809 to November 1925. |
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1820 France | 1820-30 England ‘Near the Strand’by George Scharf |
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1821 ‘the festival of the tutelar Saint of Scotland was celebrated at the London Tavern’Westmorland Gazette - Saturday 08 December 1821 | |||||
1828 Inverness Courier - Wednesday 03 September 1828 |
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1830 Ignatz Schichtl, Germany | 1844 steam band, France |
sketch | |||
1859 playing for dancing bear and other animals | |||||
1848-1881 catchpenny print, Holland |
1865 Naples, Italy |
9th March 1867 Punch | |||
1882 Sweden | |||||
1867 New York, USA |
1873 France painting | ||||
1884 ‘The sunshade, the glove, the muff.’ Avril, Paul, Illustrator, London, England | |||||
late Victorian, Whitby, England |
1909 unknown |
1932 England | |||
1931 USA | “Uncle George Wiley, 90 year old hermit of Sutton, N.H. who plays his old organ, harmonica, bass drum and phonograph all at the same time and his services are in great demand when snap dance music is wanted on a Saturday night.” |
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1849 “…Several old acquaintances who once waked the echoes of the quiet streets have gradually departed. First and foremost, we miss the ingenious professor who shook the hat of Chinese bells, beat the drum and cymbals with his knees, and played the mouth-organ, all at once. He is gone, and albeit he must have left his apparatus behind him, no one has supplied his place…” Sketches of London Life and Character, by Albert Smith et. al., [1849] - Music in the Streets |
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1850's - 60's "...Another street performer was a foreigner who played, or made a noise on, London and Londoners in the Eighteen-Fifties and Sixties, by Alfred Rosling Bennett, 1924 - Chapter 6 - Street Entertainers |
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1890's |
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early 20th century advertisement |
20th century USA | 20th century | |||
2010 hang drum and digeridoo, England |
21st century Indonesia |
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2022 Ecuador |
statuette Russian Federation |
21st century figurine, . New Zealand |
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