INDEX.
Reading edition
Al-Farabi, a great performer on the lute, 57
American Indian instruments, 59, 77
American value of inquiry, 59
American trumpets, 67
American theories as to origin from musical instruments, 80
Arab instruments very numerous, 56
Archlute, 109, 115
Ashantee trumpet, 2
Asor explained, 19
Assyrian instruments, 16
“Aulos,” 32
Bagpipe, Hebrew, 23
Bagpipe, Greek, 31
Bagpipe, Celtic, 119
Barbiton, 31, 34
Bells, Hebrew, 25
Bells, Peruvian, 75
Bells, and ringing, 121-123
Blasius, Saint, the manuscript, 86
Bones, traditions about them, 47
Bones, made into flutes, 64
Bottles, as musical instruments, 71
Bow, see Violin
Bruce, his discovery of harps on frescoes, 11
Capistrum, 35
Carillon, 121, 124
Catgut, how made, 1
Chanterelle, 114
Chelys, 30
Chinese instruments, 38
Chinese bells, 40
Chinese drum, 44
Chinese flutes, 45
Chinese board of music, 80
Chorus, 99
Cimbal, or dulcimer, 5
Cithara, 86
Cithara, Anglican, 92
Cittern, 113
Clarion, 113
Cornu, 36
Crowd, 94
Crwth, 34, 93
Cymbals, Hebrew, 25
Cymbals, or cymbalum, 105
Cymbals, 113
David’s (King) private band, 19
David’s his favourite instrument, 20
Diaulos, 32
Drum, Hebrew, 24
Drum, Greek, 32
Drum, Chinese, 44
Drum, Mexican, 71, 73
Dulcimer, 5
Dulcimer, Assyrian, 17
Dulcimer, Hebrew, 19
Dulcimer, Persian prototype, 54
Egyptian (ancient) musical instruments, 10
Egyptian harps, 11
Egyptian flutes, 12
Etruscan instruments, 33
Etruscan flutes, 33
Etruscan trumpet, 33
Fiddle, originally a poor contrivance, 50
Fiddle, Anglo-saxon, 95
Fiddle, early German, 95
Fistula, 36
Flute, Greek, 32
Flute, Persian, 56
Flute, Mexican, 63
Flute, Peruvian, 63
Flute, mediæval, 100
“Free reed,” whence imported, 5
Gerbert, abbot, 86
Greek instruments, 27
Greek music, whence derived, 27
Hallelujah, compared with Peruvian song, 82
Harmonicon, Chinese, 42
Harp, Egyptian, 11
Harp, Assyrian, 16
Harp, Hebrew, 19
Harp, Greek, 28
Harp, Anglo-saxon, 89
Harp, Irish, 90
Hebrew instruments, 19, 26
Hebrew pipe, 22
Hebrew drum, 24
Hebrew cymbals, 25
Hebrew words among Indians, 83
Hindu instruments, 46-48
Hurdy-gurdy, 107
Hydraulos, hydraulic organ, 33
Instruments, curious shapes, 2
Instruments, value and use of collections, 4, 5, 7
Instruments, Assyrian and Babylonian, 18
Jubal, 26
Juruparis, its sacred character, 68
Kinnor, 20
King, Chinese, 39
King, various shapes, 40
Lute, Chinese, 46
Lute, Persian, 54
Lute, Moorish, 57
Lute, Elizabethan, 114
Lyre, Assyrian, 17
Lyre, Hebrew, 19
Lyre, Hebrew, of the time of Joseph, 21
Lyre, Greek, 29, 30
Lyre, Roman, 34
Lyre, Roman, various kinds, 34
Lyre, early Christian, 86
Lyre, early German “lyra,” 95
Magadis, 27, 31
Magrepha, 23
Maori trumpet, 2
Materials, commonly, of instruments, 1
Mediæval musical instruments, 85
Mediæval musical instruments, derived from Asia, 85
Mexican instruments, 60
Mexican whistle, 60
Mexican pipe, 61, 81
Mexican flute, 63
Mexican trumpet, 69, 82
Mexican drum, 71
Mexican songs, 79
Mexican council of music, 80
Minnim, 22
Monochord, 98
Moorish instruments adopted in England, 56
Muses on a vase at Munich, 30
Music one of the fine arts, 1
Nablia, 35, 88
Nadr ben el-Hares, 54
Nareda, inventor of Hindu instruments, 46
Nero coin with an organ, 34
Nofre, a guitar, 11
Oboe, Persian, 56
Oliphant, 101
Orchestra, 107
Orchestra, modifications, 7
Organistrum, 98, 111
Organ, 101
Organ, pneumatic and hydraulic, 101
Organ, in MS. of Eadwine, 103
Pandoura, 31
Pedal, invented, 103
Persian instruments, 51
Persian harp, 51
Peruvian pipes, 65
Peruvian drum, 74
Peruvian bells, 75
Peruvian stringed instruments, 77
Peruvian songs, 78, 79
Peterborough paintings of violins, 95
Pipe, single and double, 22
Pipe, Mexican, 61
Pipe, Peruvian, 65
Plektron, 30
Poongi, Hindu, 51
Pre-historic instruments, 9
Psalterium, 35, 87, 89, 111, 113
Rattle of Nootka Sound, 2
Rattle American Indian, 74
Rebeck, 94, 113
Recorder, 119
Regal, 103
Roman musical instruments, 34
Roman lyre, 34
Rotta, or rote, 91, 92
Sackbut, 101, 113
Sambuca, 35
Santir, 5, 54
Sêbi, the, 12
Shalm, 113
Shophar, still used by the Jews, 24
Sistrum, Hebrew, 25
Sistrum, Roman, 37
Songs, Peruvian and Mexican, 79
Stringed instruments, 3
Syrinx, 23, 113
Syrinx, Greek, 32
Syrinx, Roman, 36
Syrinx, Peruvian, 64, 81
Tamboura, 22, 47
Temples in China, 46
Theorbo, 109, 115
Tibia, 35
Timbrel, 113
Tintinnabulum, 106
Triangle, 106
Trigonon, 27, 30, 35
Trumpet, Assyrian, 18
Trumpet, Hebrew, 24
Trumpet, Greek, 32
Trumpet, Roman, 36
Trumpet, American Indian, 67
Trumpet, of the Caroados, 69
Trumpet, Mexican, 69, 82
Tympanon, 32
Universality of musical instruments, 1
Vielle, 107, 108
Vihuela, 111
Vina, Hindu, 47
Vina, performer, 48
Viol, Spanish, 111, 117
Viol, da gamba, 117
Violin bow invented by Hindus? 49
Violin Persian, 50
Violin mediæval, 95
Virginal, 114
Wait, the instrument, 113
Water, supposed origin of musical instruments, 47
Whistle, prehistoric, 9
Whistle, Mexican, 60
Wind instruments, 3
Yu, Chinese stone, 39
Yu, Chinese wind instrument, 45
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