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De fidiculis bibliographia: being an attempt towards a bibliography of the violin and all other instruments played with a bow in ancient and modern times, 1890
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1every Bibliography of Music and of general literature that, as far as I know, has been published; I have searched every Encyclopædia and work of general reference in use among scholars and students to which I have been able to gain access, and have examined the indexes of works of general information, magazines, and leading newspapers published and indexed in the old and new worlds in quest of any matter relating to the violin. The result of these labours has been that I find myself the possessor of a library relating to the violin, larger, I believe, than any in the whole world—the British Museum Library, the Conservatoire Library of Brussels, and the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris not excepted—and, I am consequently to-day in the possession of the sources of more varied and exact information relating to the instrument than are to be found in any private or public institution at the present time. My enthusiasm for the subject has brought me into correspondence with the leading librarians and musical authorities of London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Brussels, Madrid, and New York, and I have endeavoured to condense the whole of the information that I have acquired through these varied channels into this volume. To render it easy of reference I have added a series of indexes by the aid of which the inquirer will, I hope, be able to find at once the recorded information on any subject, historical, biographical, scientific, theoretical, practical, or romantic, in any way connected with the king of musical instruments.
3The heads of this work comprise all kinds of printed matter concerning the violin, and the music-lover will find in this volume, in addition to the subject-headings above
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