Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

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The History of the Violin: And Other Instruments Played on with the Bow from the Remotest Times to the Present, Also, an Account of the Principal Makers, English and Foreign, with Numerous Illustrations, 1864

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1INDEX.
3BEL, performer, 183.
4Abrinces, king's versifier, 73.
5Adenez le Roi, 81.
6Adye, W. L. Esq., his violin, 233.
7Agricola, Martin, 47-8, 93-4.
8Aireton, maker, 355.
9Albani, makers, 214.
10Albinus, or Alcuin, 41.
11Aldred, maker, 250.
12Alexandre Roman d', 40.
13Alleyn, instruments of, 144.
14Amati, makers, 201-8.
15Amphicordium, 95.
16Anacreon, 12.
17Anthony Now Now, 109.
18Arabian and African instruments, 11-12.
19Armin, "Nest of Ninnies," 108.
20Arched viall, 152.
21Arnold le Vielleux, 65.
22Arnold, St. performer, 56.
23Artusi, 45.
25Baker, maker, 257.
26Baltazar, 100.
27Baltzar, 146, 152-3.
28Banks, makers, 359.
29Bannister, warrant to buy Cremona violins, 154.
30Barbiton, 12, 119, 121-3.
31Barnes, maker, 268.
32Barraud, chamber bass, 374.
33Barrett, maker, 262.
34Bartoloccius, Hebrew instruments, 7.
35Bass-viol, large, 93.
36Baud, experiments by, 186.
38Bede, or Pseudo-Bede, 52.
39Bergonzi, makers, 236.
40Betts, makers, 270.
41Beverley, minstrels, 84.
42Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, 79.
43Bigati, anecdote of, 174.
44Blanchinus, 16.
45Blegabres, Blæthgabreat, 25, 36, 40.
46Bolles, maker, 250.
47Bonanni, Gabinetto, 165.
48Bourdelot, anecdote of, 163.
49Bow, introduction of, 20, 49, 158.
50 Ditto, length of, 159.
51 Ditto, makers, 158-60, 369.
52Britton, instruments, 253, 257-8.
53Brossard, instruments named by, 130.
54Brown, makers, 354.
55Brut, Roman de, 25, 36.
56Bull, Ole, his violin, 200.
57Burney's History, 18, 115-16, 146.
59Carré, account of instruments, 165.
60Carter, ancient sculpture, 29, 67-8, 84, 91-2.
61Castrucci, performer, 179.
62Cat and fiddle, 135.
63Cerone, instruments named by, 117.
64Cerreto, the like, 116.
65Cervetto, performers, 183.
66Chanot, experiments by, 186.
67Chappell, Wm., F.S.A., his valuable work, &c. 21, 36.
68Charles I., performer, 137.
69 Ditto, band, 138.
70Charles II., four and twenty fiddlers, 146.
71Charles IX. of France, 98, 202.

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