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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments in the South Kensington museum, preceded by an essay on the history of musical instruments, 1874
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1Viols, Violins, and other Instruments played with a Bow.
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5Viola-da-Gamba. English. 17th century. Carved head. Six-stringed. Inside is the inscription, Richard Meares, without Bishopsgate, near to Sir Paul Pinders, London, Fecit 1677.
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9Viola-da-Gamba. Inlaid with mythological representations and other ornamentation in ivory, mother-of-pearl, tortoise-shell, &c. Made about the year 1580, probably in Hamburg.
11The substitution of a machine for the original tuning-pegs is modern; otherwise the instrument is in its original condition. There could be no difficulty in restoring the tuning-pegs, which probably were of ivory, perhaps ornamented at the top, with a small jewel corresponding with those still to be seen on the neck.
13Before this instrument came into the present collection it was in the possession of Mr. Simon Andrew Forster. In the work entitled 'The History of the Violin and other Instruments played on with the Bow,' by W. Sandys and S. A. Forster, London, 1864, there will be found two representations of this instrument, with some information respecting its history. Having mentioned Corelli's violin, made in the year 1578, and the celebrated violin which Queen Elizabeth gave to the Earl of Leicester, the writers proceed as follows:—"One of the writers of this work has in his possession a very handsome viol-da-gamba of about this date, richly inlaid and ornamented, purchased from the late Mr. John Cawse, the artist, but we have been unable to ascertain the previous owners. The body is about the size of a modern violoncello, and it has frets. It is altogether so fine a specimen of this class of instruments that we have had photographs, from which our illustrations are taken. When the lamented Prince Consort, on the 16th of April 1845,
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