Chapter XXXI: Section XV: Anecdotes and Miscellanea connected with the Violin (4)

Copyists, three kinds of, and their methods . . . . . . . . . . 144

Corbett, William, an early collector of Italian Violins; his
Gallery of Cremonys and Stainers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Cordano, Jacopo Filippo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Corelli, his Sonatas, or "Balletti da Camera" . . . . . . . . . 379

Corsby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Corsby, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Costa, Pietro Antonio dalla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Covered Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Cozio, Count, patron of Mantegazza, 152; purchaser of
Stradivari's tools and models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Cramer, William and Francois, Violinists, and the "Ancient
Concerts" in London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Cramond, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Crask, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Credulous Dabblers and Fiddle Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Cremonese apathy as to Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Cremonese Varnish, a "lost art" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Crescent-formed Sound-hole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Cristofori, Bartolommeo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Cross Nathaniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Crowdero, The Champion, and Hudibras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Crowther, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Cunault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Cuny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Cuthbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

"Cutting" and maiming, Charles Reade on . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Cuypers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

D

Dalla Valle, Marquis, possessor of Stradivari's tools and models 189

Dando, Violinist, and the "Concerti da Camera" in London . . . . 401

Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Darche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Dardelli, Pietro, his Lutes and Viols . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Davidson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Davis, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Davis, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Dearlove, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

De Beriot and Maggini's Violins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Decadence of the Violin-maker's art, general causes of . . . . . 286

De Comble, Ambroise, probably a pupil of Stradivari; good
character of work, varnish, and tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Dehommais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Delanoix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Delany, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Delaunay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Deleplanque, Gerard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Del Gesu (see Guarneri) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Dennis, Jesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Derazey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Despine, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Despons, Antoine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Devereux, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Dibdin, Charles, his early musical experiences . . . . . . . . . 319

Dichord of the Egyptians and Arabians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Dickeson, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Dickinson, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Dieffopruchar, Magno (Magnus Tieffenbrucker) . . . . . . . . . . 111

Diehl, Friedrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Diehl, Heinrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Diehl, Johann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Diehl, Nicolaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Diel, Johann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Diel, Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Diel (or Diehl), Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Diel, Nicolaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Dieulafait, Viol-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Ditton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Dodd, Thomas, a dealer and employer of makers of high merit, and
famous for his varnish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Dodd, Thomas (_fils_) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

"Dolphin Strad," The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Dominicelli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Dopfer, Nicolaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Dorant, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Double-Basses and Violas the stepping-stones to Violin-making . 25

Dragonetti, his heavy strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Dragonetti's Gasparo da Salo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Droulot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Ducheron, Mathurin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Duiffoprugcar, Gaspar, comparison of his claims with those of
Gaspar da Salo; description of his work . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Duke, Richard, one of the most distinguished of English makers,
but often counterfeited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Duke, Richard (_fils_) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Du Mesnil, Jacques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Duncan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Durfel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

E

Earliest representation of stringed instruments . . . . . . . . 6

Early history of Violin involved in obscurity . . . . . . . . . 1

Early makers, their great care in selection of wood for the
Violins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Eastern origin of the Bow, alleged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Eberle, J. Ulric, good copyist of Italian masters . . . . . . . 262

Eccles, John Henry, musician to Louis XIV.; his solos for the
Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Eccles, Thomas, an itinerant Violinist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Edlinger, Joseph Joachim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Edlinger, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Eesbroeck, Jean Van . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Eglington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Egyptian Obelisk, stringed instruments on . . . . . . . . . . . 6

"Elector Stainers," The Twelve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Elliston and George III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Elsler, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Engel's "Researches into Early History of the Violin" . . . . . 4

English Makers, List of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

English makers, no mention of by continental writers on the
Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

English School, The, 284; causes of its decadence . . . . . . . 285

Ernst, Franz Anton; an eminent Violinist and pupil of Lolli;
also a maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Ernst, Herr, his exquisite style as a Violinist . . . . . . . . 409

Ettrick Shepherd, The, and the Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Eugene, Prince, and Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

European origin of the Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Evans, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Evelyn, John, on celebrity of old Lutinists . . . . . . . . . . 263

Experiments as to tension of Violin strings . . . . . . . . . . 54

F

Falaise, copied Amati and Stradivari; good work . . . . . . . . 239

Farinato, Paolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Felden, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Fendt (or Fent) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Fendt, Bernard, an admirable workman, employed by Dodd and John
Betts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Fendt, Bernard Simon, a high-class maker of Italian models . . . 307

Fendt, Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Fendt, Jacob, clever copyist of Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Fendt, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Fendt, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Ferguson, Donald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Fesca, Violinist, and his quartettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Festing, Michael Christian, and the Philharmonic Society and
Royal Society of Musicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Fetis, M., his Eastern theory of the Bow, 14; his notice of
Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

_f_-holes, or Sound-holes, their importance . . . . . . . . . . 40

Fichtold, Hans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Fichtl, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Ficker, Johann Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Ficker, Johann Gotlieb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Fiddle Marks and the Credulous Dabblers . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Fiddle Trade, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Finger-board, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Fiorillo, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Firth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Fischer, Zacharie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Flanders, early musical culture in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Fleury, Benoist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Forster, Simon Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Forster, William (i.), spinning-wheel and Violin-maker . . . . . 309

Forster, William (ii.), spinning-wheel and Violin-maker, and
village Violinist; copyist of Stainer, and of the Amatis;
excellent character of his work; his instruments prized by
Lindley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Forster, William (iii.), excellent work and model . . . . . . . 312

Forster, William (iv.), good work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Fountaine, Mr., his collection of instruments . . . . . . . . . 366

"Four Corners" of the Violono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Fourrier, Nicolas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Francis I. of Austria, an amateur musician . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Frankland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Frei, Hans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

French Makers, List of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

French School, The; sketch of its Rise and Progress . . . . . . 224

Fretted Viols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Frey, Hans, Lute-maker; related to Albert Durer; his work
praised by John Evelyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Fritzche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

"Fugal Vortex," The Prince and the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Furber, copier of the "Betts" Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Furber, Henry John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

G

Gabrielli, Giovanni Battista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Gaffino, Giuseppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Gagliano, Alessandro, pupil of A. Stradivari; description of his
work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Gagliano, Antonio, Giovanni, Giuseppe, and Raffaele . . . . . . 116

Gagliano, Ferdinando . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Gagliano, Gennaro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Gagliano, Niccolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Gaillard, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Gaillard, J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Gainsborough as a Musician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Galbusera, C. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Ganassi, Silvestro, his work on the Viol . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Gand, Adolphe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Gand, Eugene, partner with Bernadel Brothers . . . . . . . . . . 241

Gand, Francois, pupil and son-in-law of Nicolas Lupot; excellent
work, especially as a repairer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Garani, Michel Angelo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Garani, Niccolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Garrick and Cervetto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Gasparo da Salo, reputed inventor of the four-stringed Violin,
26; the first great artistic maker, characteristics of his
work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168-172

Gatinari, Francesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Gavinies, Francois, old French School; good quality . . . . . . 241

Gavinies, Pierre, his Concertos and Sonatas . . . . . . . . . . 393

Gedler, Johann A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Gedler, Johann B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Geissenhof, Franz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Geige, The, derivation of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Geminiani, Francesco, his Sonatas and other works . . . . . . . 387

Gennaro, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

George III. and Elliston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Gerbertus, Martinus, De Cantu et Musica Sacra . . . . . . . . . 10

Gerle, Johann, Lutes and Viols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Germain, Emile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Germain, Joseph Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

German Makers, List of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

German origin of the Violin, early indications of . . . . . . 17-18

German School, The, its poverty as to makers of originality . . 258

German Violins, no trace of in the time of Gasparo da Salo . . . 25

Geroni, Domenico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Ghidini, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Giardini, Felice, composer and Violinist . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Gibbs, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Gibertini, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Gigeours, The, of Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Gilkes, William, Double-Bass maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Gilkes, Samuel, pupil of Forster; an excellent workman . . . . . 313

Gillott Collection, The; its origin, character, and dispersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367-374

Giorgi, N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Giustiniani, Lorenzo, his letter to Stradivari . . . . . . . . . 206

Gobetti (Gobit), Francesco, high character of his work . . . . . 118

Goding Collection, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Goding, Mr. James, his Stradivari with an alien scroll; a
curious coincidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Gofriller, Francesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Gofriller, Matteo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Gosselin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Gough, Walter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Gragnani, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Grancino, Francesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Grancino, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Grancino, Giovanni Battista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Grancino, Paolo, pupil of Niccolo Amati; description of his work 120

"Grand Amati" pattern, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Grand-Gerard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Grandson, Fils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Graun, Violinist to the King of Prussia . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Griesser, Matthias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Grimm, Carl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Grobitz, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Grosset, Paul Francois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Gross-Geige, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Grulli, Pietro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Guadagnini, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Guadagnini, Carlo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Guadagnini, Francesco and Giuseppe, now living at Turin . . . . 126

Guadagnini, Gaetano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Guadagnini, Giovanni Battista, pupil of Stradivari; description
of his work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Guadagnini, Giuseppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Guadagnini, Lorenzo, the first of his family; high character of
his work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Guarneri, Andrea, the pioneer of his family; pupil of Amati; his
Violins and Violoncellos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Guarneri, at a discount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

Guarneri, Giuseppe (son of Andrea); originality of his style,
and peculiarity of his sound-holes; character of his varnish;
high value of his Violins, Violas, and Violoncellos . . . . . 129

Guarneri, Giuseppe (del Gesu); his peculiar cypher; probably a
pupil of his cousin Giuseppe; his fertility of design;
traditions as to his "prison Fiddles;" three orders of
copyists; Paganini's Guarneri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132-147

Guarneri, Pietro (brother of Giuseppe filius Andrae),
description of his work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Guarneri, Pietro (son of Giuseppe filius Andrae) . . . . . . . . 132

Guersan, Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Gugemmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Guidanti, Giovanni (Joannes Guidantus), specimen at exhibition
of Milan, 1881; character of his work . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Guillami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Gunn, John, his essay on stringed instruments . . . . . . . . . 7

H

Habeneck, Francois Antoine, composer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Haensel, Johann A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Hamberger, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Hamm, Johann Gottfried . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Hammig, W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Handel, George Frederick, and the Royal Society of Musicians,
399; influence of his works on Violin-playing . . . . . . . . 405

Harbour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Hardie, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Hardie, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Hare, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Hare, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Harris Charles, an excellent copyist, Italian mode . . . . . . . 315

Harris, Charles (2), good character of work . . . . . . . . . . 316

Hart, John Thomas, pupil of Samuel Gilkes; distinguished as a
connoisseur, dealer and collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Harton, Michael, Lute-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Hassert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Hawkins, Sir John, his "History of Music," 7; his opinion of
Stainer's merits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Haydn, Joseph, his quartettes, and a Lady's humorous
comparison, 405-406; Haydn in London; Letters from Rev. T.
Twining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Haynes, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Heesom, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Hel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Helmer, Carl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Henry, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Henry, Eugene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Henry, Jean Baptiste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Henry, Jean Baptiste Felix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Henry, Octave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Herbert, George, his references to music . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Hildebrandt, Michael C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Hill, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Hill, Lockey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Hill, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Hill, William Ebsworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Hiltz, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Hobby-horses, Laurence Sterne on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Hoffmann, Johann Christian, Lutes and Viols . . . . . . . . . . 265

Hoffman, Martin, Lutes and Viols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Hofmans, Mathias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Hogarth's "Line of Beauty" and the Violin . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Holloway, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Holmes, Henry and Alfred, Violinists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, on the Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Horil, Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Hornstainer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Hornstainer, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Hudibras and the Champion Crowdero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Huller, August . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Humel, Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Hume, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Hunger, Christoph Friedrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

I

Illuminated MSS. of the Middle Ages, and other early evidence . 12

"II Per" (see Ruggeri, Francesco) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Indefatigable Violinist, An . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Individuality and affinity both evident in the work of the
several Italian Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Influence of different varnishes on the tone of the Violin . . . 75

Instruction in Violin-playing, by Tartini . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Italian Makers, List of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Italian School of Violin-playing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Italian Varnishes, the different varieties described . . . . . . 70

Italian Violins, five distinct Schools: the Brescian; the
Cremonese; the Neapolitan; Florence, Bologna and Rome; the
Venetian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Itinerant Musicians and the Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 386

J

"Jack of All Trades," Charles Reade's . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Jacobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Jacobs, Hendrik, a close imitator of Nicolas Amati . . . . . . . 242

Jacquot, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Jacquot, Charles (_fils_) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Jais, Johann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Jauch, Johann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Jay, Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Jay, Henry, maker of Kits and Violoncellos . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Jay, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Jeandel, P. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Jenkins, John, his twelve Sonatas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Joachim, Herr, and Bach's Sonatas, 404; his high rank as a
performer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Johnson, Dr., on Collecting as a Hobby, 374; on the Violin . . . 429

Johnson, John, Violin and music-seller; his relations with
Charles Dibdin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Jongleurs, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

K

Kambl, Johann A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Karb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Kembter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Kennedy, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Kennedy, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Kennedy, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Kerlino, Joan, Viol-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Kiaposse, Sawes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Kirchschlag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Klein-Geige, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Kloz, Egidius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Kloz, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Kloz, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Kloz, J. Karl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Kloz, Matthias, pupil of Stainer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Kloz, Sebastian, his work much esteemed . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Knitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Knittle, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Kohl, Johann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Kolditz, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Kolditz, Mathias Johann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Koliker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Kramer, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Kriner, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

L

Labels as Trade-marks sometimes transferred . . . . . . . 118, 357

Lafont, Violinist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Lagetto, Luigi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Lamb, Charles, and his "ragged veterans" . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Lambert, Jean Nicolas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Lancetti, Vincenzo, extract from his MS. on Italian
Violin-making, 68; on Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Landolfi, Carlo Ferdinando; high character of his work . . . . . 147

Lane's "Modern Egypt," and the Rebab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Lanza, Antonio Maria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148