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Musical instruments. Pt. II, English and Irish instruments, 1908
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1MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
3PART I.—Issue, 180 copies
5"The Irish and the Highland Harps"
7On receipt of £3 for each volume, a limited number of copies will be forwarded to private individuals, or to Booksellers, free in the United Kingdom.
9ROBERT B. ARMSTRONG,
106 RANDOLPH CLIFF,
11EDINBURGH.
13OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
15THE ATHENÆUM, 22nd July 1905.
17"It is hard to overestimate the service done both to archaeologists and musicians by this admirable monograph on the relics of a lost art.
19"The Highland harp, twin sister of the Irish, receives, of course, from the Scotch antiquary full and sympathetic treatment. He thinks the Scotch 'Queen Mary' harp worthy to be called the queen of the tribe, and this may be admitted as far as the condition is concerned. But surely the splendid restoration of the FitzGerald harp pictured on the cover of this stately volume far excels the rest in artistic beauty, not only of form, but also of ornamentation.
21"The decoration of these instruments is indeed a curious and wide subject in itself, and Mr. Armstrong has given the student of Celtic ornament ample materials for studying this branch of it in the many exquisite plates, besides scholarly drawings which make this volume a thing of beauty as well as a mine of learning.
23"We can hardly imagine that this extinct instrument, representing an extinct art (or rather virtuosity), will ever again receive such elaborate handling. All that can be said archaeologically has been said by Mr. Armstrong, and
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