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Scan 138
Musical instruments, 1875
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1INDEX.
3Al-Farabi, a great performer on the lute, 57
4American Indian instruments, 59, 77
5 value of inquiry, 59
6 trumpets, 67
7 theories as to origin from musical instruments, 80
8Arab instruments very numerous, 56
9Archlute, 109, 115
10Ashantee trumpet, 2
11Asor explained, 19
12Assyrian instruments, 16
13"Aulos," 32
15Bagpipe, Hebrew, 23
16 Greek, 31
17 Celtic, 119
18Barbiton, 31, 34
19Bells, Hebrew, 25
20 Peruvian, 75
21 and ringing, 121—123
22Blasius, Saint, the manuscript, 86
23Bones, traditions about them, 47
24 made into flutes, 64
25Bottles, as musical instruments, 71
26Bow, see Violin
27Bruce, his discovery of harps on frescoes, 11
29Capistrum, 35
30Carillon, 121, 124
31Catgut, how made, 1
32Chanterelle, 114
33Chelys, 30
34Chinese instruments, 38
35 bells, 40
36 drum, 44
37 flutes, 45
38 board of music, 80
39Chorus, 99
41Cimbal, or dulcimer, 5
42Cithara, 86
43 Anglican, 92
44Cittern, 113
45Clarion, 113
46Cornu, 36
47Crowd, 94
48Crwth, 34, 93
49Cymbals, Hebrew, 25
50 or cymbalum, 105
51 113
53David's (King) private band, 19
54 his favourite instrument, 20
55Diaulos, 32
56Drum, Hebrew, 24
57 Greek, 32
58 Chinese, 44
59 Mexican, 71, 73
60Dulcimer, 5
61 Assyrian, 17
62 Hebrew, 19
63 Persian prototype, 54
65Egyptian (ancient) musical instruments, 10
66Egyptian harps, 11
67 flutes, 12
68Etruscan instruments, 33
69 flutes, 33
70 trumpet, 33
72Fiddle, originally a poor contrivance, 50
73Fiddle, Anglo-saxon, 95
74 early German, 95
75Fistula, 36
76Flute, Greek, 32
77 Persian, 56
78 Mexican, 63
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