INDEX
Reading edition
Albani, 102
Aldric, Paris dealer, 174
Aireton, 124
Amateurs, their opinions, 225
Amati, the, 43, 44, 47
Americans, their wood, 233
Artôt’s Strad, 75
Balzar, great violinist, 122
Band, Charles II.’s, 121
Banks, English maker, 130
Barak Norman, English maker, 125
Bernadel, French maker, 109, 189
Betts, English maker, 133
Bisexual violin nature, 22
Boquay, French maker, 105
Bows, see Chap. XI.
Buying fiddles, 235
Carlo Bergonzi, 83;
supremacy, 230;
gems, 173;
influence, 94
Charles II.’s court, influence on music, 121
Charles Reade, 180, 217
Children, their fiddles, 68
Collecting mania, 12
Completeness of violin, 7
Control of violin, 9
Convalescent fiddles, 200
Cracked fiddles, 198
Cremona city, 42
Cremona gems, discovery of, 173
Cremona influence, 94
Cross, English maker, 125
Dealers, see Chap. XV.
Dodd, bow-maker, 133, 166
“Dolphin,” a celebrated Strad, 74
Duiffoprugcar, old maker, 12;
his viol da Gamba, 19
Duke, English maker, 132
Elector fiddles by Stainer, 97
English makers, see Chap. VIII.
“False” strings, 156
Fendt, Bernard, 132
Fiddles and umbrellas, 214
Fiddle flukes, 220
Fiddle frauds, 223
Fiddle judges, 224
Fiddles, new and old, secret of, 227, 233
Fingerboard, 207
“Finish” of old makers, 26
Foster, the family of, 126-127, &c.
France, violins in, see Chap. VII.
François Tourte, bow-maker, 164
Gagliano, 89
Gand, French maker, 109, 189
Gasparo da Salo, 30
Genesis of violin, see Chap. I.
German strings, 158
Germany, fiddle-makers, see Chap. VI.
Geronimo Amati, 44
Gillott’s Mr, collection, 217
Giuseppe or Joseph Guarnerius, 53
Goding’s, Mr, collection, 178
Golden Strad period, 73
Guadagnini, 86
Guarneri family, 51
Guild of Markneukirchen, 194-197.
Hart, John, dealer, 180
Hill, William Ebsworth, 133
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 226
Horses, fiddles and umbrellas, 214
Ignorance and neglect, 215
Jaques, French maker, 105
Jay, English maker, 124
Jean and Nicolas Medard, 187
Joseph or Giuseppe Guarnerius, 53
Kennedys, the English, 1872 and 1885, 218;
makers, 124
Klotz family, 101, 191
Landolpho, Italian, 216
Lott, John, English, 219
Luigi Tarisio, rediscoverer of Cremonas, 179, 181;
see Chap. XIV.
Lupôt, French maker, 106, 168-188
Maggini, early Brescian maker, 32-40
Mantegazza, Venetian maker, 90
Manufacture of strings process, 155
Markneukirchen, early home of violin manufacture, 186, 193
“Master” Reiter, Mittenwald maker, 192
Maucotel, French, 188
Medard, early Tyrol maker, 187;
see Chap. XIII.
Menegand, French, 188
“Messie,” a great Strad violin, 77
Mirecourt, early home of violin manufacture, 189
Mittenwald violin manufacture, 186
Montagnana, Venetian maker, 87
Mutes or sordini to deaden sounds, 159
Neglect of English makers, 118
Neglect of violins, 215
New fiddles, 227, 233
Nicolas Lupôt, see Lupôt.
Nicolo Amati, the best of the family, 47
Norman, see Barak Norman.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, a letter, 226
Ouri, the violinist, 170
Over-restoration, 203
Paduan strings, 158
Paganini, 9-56, 182
Pamphilon, English maker, 124
Panormo, maker of guitars and fiddles, 124
Paris, Vuillaume and Tarisio at, 176-178
Parker, English maker, 124
Peccate, Italian maker, 169
Pernambuco wood for bows, 161
Personal fascination in violin-playing, secret of it, 11
Pieray, 105
Pique, French maker, 108
Prelude and postlude, 7, 237
“Pucelle,” a celebrated Strad, 78
Reade, see Charles Reade.
Reiter, see “Master.”
Remenyi, violinist, 170, 224
Restoration, 203
Revarder, Mirecourt maker, 188
Rosin, treatment and use of, 202
Rugerius, Italian maker, 50
Salo, early violin centre, 30
Savart’s experiments, 25
Scale of prices, 236
Secret or old violins, 228
Sound qualities of old and new violins, 227
South Kensington Collections, see Kensington.
Stainer, see Chap. VI.
Stainer, Miss, “Violin Manual,” 189
Stradivarius, see Chap. V.
Strange finds, 77
String gauge, 154
Strings, violin, see Chap. X.
Story of the Markneukirchen Guild, 194-197
Subdivision of labour a cause of decline, 231
Tarisio, see Luigi, 179, and Chap. XIV.
Techler, German school, 102
Thibouville-Lamy, French maker, 189
Tourte, bow-maker, 164
Treatment of violin, see Chap. XIV.
Tubbs, bow-maker, 169
“Tuscan,” the celebrated Strad, 69
Urquhart, English maker, 124
Varnish, see Chap. IX.
Violin constitution, see Chap. II.
Violin dealing and collecting, see Chap. XV.
Violin progress, see Chap. I.
Violin rise, see Chap. I.
Violin treatment, see Chap. XIV.
Viols, see Chap. I.;
English, 119
Vision of Stradivari, 79
Vuillaume, 110, 168
Walmesley, English maker, 125
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