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Lapaix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Laprevotte, Etienne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Laska, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Lavazza, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Lavazza, Santino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Leclair, Jean Marie, Violinist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Leclerc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Lecomte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Leduc, Pierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Lefebvre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Leigh Hunt on Paganini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Le Jeune, Francois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Lentz, Johann Nicolaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Leonardo da Vinci as a Violist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Le Pileur, Pierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Lesclop, Francois Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Lewis, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Linarolli, Venturo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Lindley, Robert, character of his stringing . . . . . . . . . . 51

Lipinski, composer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Lister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Living Stradivaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Locatelli as a composer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Lolli, his "feats on one string" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Loly, Jacopo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Lombardini, Paolo, his pamphlet on Stradivari, 178; his pedigree
of Stradivari's family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Lombardini, Signora Maddalena, letter from Tartini to, on the
art of Playing the Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

Longman and Broderip, music-sellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

"Long Strad," The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Lott, George Frederick, a clever workman . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Lott, John Frederick, employed by Dodd, and a first-class
workman; high character of his Double-Basses . . . . . . . . . 321

Lott, John Frederick (2), a clever copyist, and the original of
Charles Reade's "Jack of all Trades" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Louvet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Lulli, Jean Baptiste, Violinist to Louis XIV.; his influence as
a composer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Lupot, Francois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Lupot, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Lupot, Laurent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Lupot, Nicolas; famous as a copier of Stradivari; maker to the
Conservatoire; genuine character of his work, as to form,
varnish, and telling quality of tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

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Mace, Thomas, on the prices and choice of Lutes and Viols . . . 334

Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Madrigal, The, sixteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Maggini, Giovanni Paolo, pupil of Gasparo da Salo; other makers'
work frequently attributed to him; comparison of his
instruments with those of Gasparo; De Beriot's use of his
instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Maler, Laux, Lute-maker (the "Stradivari of Lutes"); Thomas Mace
on the prices of these instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Mann, Hans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Mantegazza, Pietro Giovanni, maker and repairer of Violins and
Tenors; good work; patronised by Count Cozio . . . . . . . . . 151

Manuscripts, Illuminated, of the Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . 12

Maratti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Marchetti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Mariani, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Marquis de Lair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Mast, Jean Laurent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Mast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Maucotel, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Maucotel, Charles Adolphe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Maussiell, Leonard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Maher (Maier), Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Mayseder, Joseph, Violinist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Mayson, W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Meares, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Medard, Francois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Medard, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Medard, Nicolas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Meiberi, Francesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

"Memoirs of Music," Roger North's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Mendelssohn and Haydn as performers on the Violin . . . . . . . 407

Mennegand, Charles, distinguished as a maker, and also as a
repairer and "cutter" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Messeguer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Meusidler, Johann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Mezadri, Alessandro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Mezadri, Francesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

"Michael Schnapps," the Fiddle Ogre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Mier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Miremont, Claude Augustin, excellent work as a copyist . . . . . 249

Missing Scroll, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Modena, Duke of, and Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Modessier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Mohr, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Moldonner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Molique, Bernard, Violinist, and composer . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Monochord, Arabian invention of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Montagnana, Domenico, pupil of Antonio Stradivari; termed "the
Mighty Venetian;" his work frequently attributed to other
great makers; comparison of work with that of his
fellow-maker, Carlo Bergonzi; increasing popularity of his
instruments; high character of his varnish . . . . . . . 152-157

Montagnana instrument shot through the body, A . . . . . . . . . 456

Montaldi, Gregorio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Monteverde, Claudio, his opera "Orfeo" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Morella, famous for Viols and Lutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Moorish influence on music in Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Mori, Nicholas, Violinist, and the Royal Academy of Music . . . 401

Morisca, or Morris Dance, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Mornington, Earl of, his early development of musical taste . . 399

Morris Dance, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Morrison, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Mougenot, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Mozart, Leopold, and his "Method" for the Violin; his early
musical genius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Musical strings, materials used and places of manufacture . . . 46

Musicians, Royal Society of, its origin . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

"Musick's Monument" of Thomas Mace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

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Nadotti, Giuseppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Namy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Naylor, Isaac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Neck of the Violin, Form and material of . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Nella, Raffaele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Netherlands, love of music in the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Nezot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Nichols, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Nicolas, Didier, Stradivari copyist; good tone . . . . . . . . . 250

Nicolas, Francois (Nicolas Fourrier) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Nicolas, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Niggel, Simpertus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Norborn, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Norman, Barak, his instruments best of old English character;
worked with Nathaniel Cross; follower of Maggini model . . . . 323

Norris John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

North, Hon. Roger, his "Memoirs of Music" . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Number of constituent parts of the Violin . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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

Ohberg, Johann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

"Old Borax," and the Fiddle Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Old Masters, their great care in selection of material . . . . . 33

Ole Bull and Fiddle varnish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

"Orfeo," The, of Monteverde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Orpheus and Apollo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Orsini, Cardinal, and Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Ortega . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Ott, Johann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Otto, C. U. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Otto, Carl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Otto, Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Otto, Georg August . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Otto, Heinrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Otto, Jacob August . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Otto, Ludwig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Ouvrard, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

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Pacherel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Pacherele, Michel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Paganini's Guarneri Violin, where now deposited, and anecdote
of, 340; extraordinary character of his work and career . . . 392

Paganini, Leigh Hunt on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Pamphilon, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Pandolfi, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Panormo, George Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Panormo, Joseph, excellent work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Panormo, Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Panormo, Vincenzo; follower of Antonio Stradivari, and famous as
a genuine copyist; his struggles with adversity; comparison of
his work with that of Lupot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Pansani, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Paolo Veronese, his picture of "The Marriage of Cana" . . . . . 376

Parker, Daniel, a good Old English maker . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Parth, Andreas Nicholas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Pasta, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Pasta, Domenico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Paul, Saint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Pazzini, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Pearce, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Pedigree of the family of Antonio Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . 179

Pemberton, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Perry and Wilkinson, good quality and finish . . . . . . . . . . 326

Pfretzschner, Carl Friedrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Pfretzschner, Gottlob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Philharmonic Society, and Michael C. Festing . . . . . . . . . . 398

Philip V. of Spain, his visit to Cremona . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Phillips, a Welsh Violinist, Dr. Johnson's Epitaph on . . . . . 431

Picino, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Pierray, Claude, excellent work, Italian character, good
varnish; an example possessed by Tom Britton . . . . . . . . . 250

Piete, N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Pique, F. L., copyist of Stradivari, school of Lupot; good
material and workmanship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Pirot, Claude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Plack, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Platner, Michel, resemblance of his work to that of Tecchler . . 160

Pleasures of Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Plectrum, Reference to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Plowden Collection, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Pollitzer, Adolphe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Pollusca, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Pons, Cesar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Pons, Guitar-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Pope Pius IX. and the musician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Porlon, Peeter (or Borlon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Possen, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Postiglione, V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Powell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Pressenda, Giovanni Francesco, high character of his work, and
especially of his varnish; his instruments of Amatese and
Stradivarian models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Preston, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Prices of Violins, &c., at various periods . . . . . . . . . 334-338

"Prison Fiddles," of Guarneri del Gesu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Progress of the Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Provence and the origin of the Geige . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Ptolemeus, Claudius, on Harmonic Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Puppo, Violinist, Anecdote of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Purcell, Henry, his Sonatas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Purfling of the Violin, 40; of the Brothers Amati . . . . . . . 84

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Quack Violin-Doctors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Quantz, Johann, Flautist, and Frederick the Great . . . . . . . 269

Quartette Association, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

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Rabenalt, Theodore, his drama, "Jacob Stainer" . . . . . . . . . 277

Racceris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Rambaux, Claude Victor, a clever repairer . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Rance, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Rauch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Rauch, Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Rauch, Sebastian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Raut, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Ravanon, King of Ceylon, and his instrument called the
"Ravanastron" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Rawlins, Henry, patronised by Giardini . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Rayman, Jacob, founder of English Violin-making; good character
of work and varnish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Reade, Charles, on the "Four Corners" of the Violono, 25; on the
Violins of Stradivari, 201; on the art of "cutting," 249; his
letter on the Betts Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

Rebab, taken to Spain by the Moors, 7; in Egypt . . . . . . . . 8

Rebec, Origin of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Reichel, Johann Conrad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Reichel, Johann Gottfried . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Reichers, August . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Remy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Remy, Jean Mathurin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Remy, Jules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Renaudin, Leopold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Renault, Nicolas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Ribeca, alleged Arabian origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Richards, Edwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Riess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Rinaldi, Gioffredo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Rivolta, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Rocca, J. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Rode, Violinist and composer, his Caprices and Concertos, and
his Instruction Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

Rodiani, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Rogeri, Giovanni Battista, pupil of Niccolo Amati; his work
highly valued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Rogeri, Pietro Giacomo, pupil of N. Amati; good work; excellent
varnish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Rogers, Dr. Benjamin, his four-part Airs for Violins . . . . . . 381

Rombouts, Peeter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Rook, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Roscher, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Ross, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Rosse (or Ross) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Rota, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Roth, Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Rousseau, Jean, his Treatise on the Viol . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Rovetta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Royal Amateur, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Royal Band of Charles II., its poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Royal Society of Musicians, Origin of . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Roze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Ruf, Herr S., his History of Jacob Stainer . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Ruggeri, Francesco ("Il Per"); excellent character of
workmanship, design, and varnish; pupil of Niccolo Amati . . . 165

Ruggeri, Giacinto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Ruggeri, Giambattista, high-class work in Violins, Violas, and
Violoncellos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Ruggeri, Vincenzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Ruppert, Franz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Ruppert, J. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

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Sacchini, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Sacquin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Sainprae, Jacques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Sainton, M., Violinist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Salabue, Count Cozio di, his passion for and collection of
Violins, 359; his correspondence relative to his purchase of
the reliques of Antonio Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Sale of Cremonese Instruments in 1790 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Salle, a clever restorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Salo, Gasparo da . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168-170

Salomon, Jean Baptiste, maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Salomon, Violinist, his concerts in London; his negotiations
with Haydn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

San Domenico, Cremona, burial-place of Stradivari . . . . . . . 212

Sanoni, Giovanni Battista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Sanscrit Literature, References to the Violin in . . . . . . . . 5

Santo, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Sanzo, Milan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Saraband, Moorish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Sardagna, Counsellor Von, his contribution to Jacob Stainer's
history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Sardi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Saunier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Savart, his paper on the construction of bow instruments . . . . 234

Sawicki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Saxon Fiddle, in the Cottonian MSS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Scandinavian origin of the Violin, alleged . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Scheinlein, Johann Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Scheinlein, Mathias F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Schell, Sebastian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Schlick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Schmidt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Schnoeck, Egidius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Schonfelder, Johann A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Schonger, Georg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Schonger, Franz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Schorn, Johann, an excellent maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Schorn, Johann Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Schott, Martin, Lute-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Schuler, Dr. Johann, his novel, "Jacob Stainer" . . . . . . . . 276

Schwartz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Schweitzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Scott, Sir Walter, on Music and Fiddles . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Scroll, A Wandering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Sellas, Matteo, Lute-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Serafino, Santo (Sanctus Seraphin), famed for exquisite finish;
German and Italian models; excellent varnish and handsome
wood, but style inferior, and lacking originality . . . . . . 172

Shaw, Dr., his "Travels in the East" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Shaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Silvestre, Hippolyte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Silvestre, Hippolyte Chretien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Silvestre, Pierre, copyist of Stradivari, of high order and
exquisite finish; fellow worker with Lupot and Gand . . . . . 253

Simon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Simonin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Simpson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Simpson, Dr. Christopher, Anecdote of . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Sivori, Camillo, his high artistic career . . . . . . . . . . . 392

"Skit," A musical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

"Slab-back" and "Whole-back," The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Smith, Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Smith, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Smith, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Sneider, Josefo; many of Girolamo Amati's instruments attributed
to this maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Socchi, Vincenzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Socquet, Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

"Sonata del Diavolo," Tartini's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Sonatas, Earliest appearance of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Sorsana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Sound-bar, oblique position of, 35; its purpose and character . 36

Sound-holes, crescent-shaped, 22; of Gasparo and Amati, 80;
shape and importance of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Sound-post, its purpose and service, 36; its position, 37;
methods of fixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Spohr, Louis, Violinist and composer; his Quartettes and Duets . 408

Spohr and his Guarneri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Spohr and the Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

"Sports and Pastimes," Strutt's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Stadelmann, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Stadelmann, Johann Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Stainer, Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Stainer, Jacob, the greatest of German artists; his popularity;
Sir John Hawkins' estimate of his work; originality and
peculiarity of his model; variation in style; his "Elector
Stainers;" his personal history, by Herr S. Ruf and Counsellor
Von Sardagna; Dr. Johann Schuler's novel, "Jacob Stainer;" his
marriage; his imprisonment for heresy; his poverty and sad
death; his numerous followers and libellists . . . . . . . 271-280

Stainer, Markus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Statlee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Staugtinger, Mathias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Steininger, Franz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Steininger, Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

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

Stolen "Strad," A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Storioni, Lorenzo, follower of Guarneri del Gesu; his freak as
to placing the sound-holes; his Violins roughly finished, but
valued for acoustical properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Stoss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Stoss, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Stradivari, Antonio, date of birth, 178; Paolo Lombardini's
pamphlet on his life, 185; his marriage, and pedigree of his
family, 178-179; affinity of his work with that of his
master, Niccolo Amati, 182; second epoch, and change of
style, 189-190; possessor of the tools and models of N.
Amati, 184; his house at Cremona, 187; extracts from
Desiderio Arisi, 185; Vincenzo Lancetti on the purchase of
Stradivari's models and tools by Count Cozio di Salabue;
the letters of Paolo and Antonio Stradivari, junior, in
reference thereto, 188; splendid character of his varnish,
198; Cardinal Orsini's and the Duke of Modena's patronage,
190-191; the "Long Strad," 195; his work for the Spanish Court
and for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, 193; letter of Marquis
Ariberti, 193; a "Concerto of Violins," 194; the "golden
period," 197; the "Betts Strad," 466; variations in qualities
of wood, 200; the "Dolphin Strad," 200; Prince Eugene and war
in Cremona, 203; visit of Philip V. of Spain to Italy, and
entry into Cremona, 204; Stradivari's instruments for
presentation to Philip 204, and to the Archduke Charles of
Austria, 206; letter of Lorenzo Giustiniani to Stradivari,
206; characteristics of the instruments of his later period,
209-211; place of his burial, 212-214; indifference of
Stradivari's own townsmen as to his remains, 215; further
notice of Count Cozio di Salabue relative to the Stradivari
reliques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Stradivari, Francesco, son and successor of Antonio; excellent
character of work, age, and date of death . . . . . . . . . . 217

Stradivari, Omobono, successor to the business of his father
Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Stradivari, Paolo, cloth merchant; his correspondence with Count
Cozio di Salabue relative to the Stradivari reliques 219, 360-364

Straube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281