Chapter I: Front Matter

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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

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SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM ART HANDBOOKS.

EDITED BY WILLIAM MASKELL.

NO. 5.--MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

_These Handbooks are reprints of the dissertations prefixed to the large catalogues of the chief divisions of works of art in the Museum at South Kensington; arranged and so far abridged as to bring each into a portable shape. The Lords of the Committee of Council on Education having determined on the publication of them, the editor trusts that they will meet the purpose intended; namely, to be useful, not alone for the collections at South Kensington but for other collections, by enabling the public at a trifling cost to understand something of the history and character of the subjects treated of._

_The authorities referred to in each book are given in the large catalogues; where will also be found detailed descriptions of the very numerous examples in the South Kensington Museum._

W. M.

_August, 1875._

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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

by

CARL ENGEL

With Numerous Woodcuts

Published for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, Ltd., London.

LIST OF WOODCUTS.

PAGE

Prehistoric whistle 9

Ancient Egyptian flute concert 13

The supposed Hebrew lyre at Beni Hassan 22

Ancient bagpipe from Tarsus 24

Hebrew trumpets, from the arch of Titus 25

Grecian harp and lyre 28

Greek lyres 29

Greek flutes 31

The _diaulos_ 32

Etruscan _cornu_ 33

Hydraulic organ 34

Roman girl and _tibia_ 36

Roman trumpets 36

Chinese king 39

" pien-tchung 41

" hiuen-tchung 42

" ou 43

" tchou 43

" kin-kou 44

" hiuen 45

" cheng 46

Hindustan, vina 49

Persian, chang 51

" bagpipe 52

Turkish harp 53

Persian dulcimer 55

The _rebab_ 56

Aztec whistles 60

Antique pipe from central America 61

Pipes of the Aztecs 62

Peruvian bone pipe 64

" huayra-puhura 65

" " 66

Orinoco Indian trumpet 67

South American Juruparis 68

Indian trumpets 70

Aztec drums 72

San Domingo drum 73

Peruvian bell 75

Aztec cluster of bells 76

Cithara, ninth century 86

Psalterium 87

Nablum 87

Citole 88

Anglo-saxon harp 89

Harp, ninth century 90

Ancient Irish harp 91

German rotte 91

Rotta 92

Irish rotta 93

The crwth 94

The old English "crowd" 95

The French crout 96

Anglo-saxon fiddle 97

German fiddle, ninth century 97

Organistrum 99

Monochord 100

Single chorus 101

Double chorus 101

Sackbut 101

Syrinx 102

Pneumatic organ, fourth century 103

Organ, twelfth century 104

Regal 104

Cymbalum, ninth century 105

Bunibulum 106

Orchestra on bas-relief 108

Vielle 109

Orchestra, twelfth century, at Santiago 110

The minstrels’ gallery, at Exeter cathedral 112

Virginal 114

Lute, Elizabethan 116

Viola da gamba 118

Recorder 119

Scotch bagpipe, eighteenth century 120

Irish bagpipe, sixteenth century 121

Carillon, Netherlands 122

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.