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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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12 harps, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarionets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 ophicleide, 1 drum, 1 triangle, and 1 bass-drum.
3In the celebrated Musical Festival in Westminster Abbey, in 1786, there were 1 organ, 106 violins, the elder Cramer being the leader, 32 violas, 28 oboes, 6 flutes, 19 violoncellos, Crosdill and Cervetto being the principals, 34 bassoons, 1 double-bassoon, 13 double-basses, 14 trumpets, 12 horns, 6 trombones, 1 drum, and 2 double drums.
5The Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace in 1862, according to the announcement, comprised in the orchestra no less than 194 violins, 75 violas, 75 violoncellos, and 75 double-basses, with 86 wind and other instruments. The chorus consisted of the extraordinary number of 3120 singers, the whole under the control of that distinguished conductor Signor Costa.
7The band for Handel's "Water Music," 1715, was composed, according to the valuable life of him by Mr. Schœlcher, of 4 violins, 1 viol, 1 violoncello, 1 counter-bass, 2 hautboys, 2 bassoons, 2 French horns, 2 flageolets, 1 flute, and 1 trumpet. In "Julius Caesar," 1723, he used in the orchestra, flutes, hautboys, bassoons, trumpets, a harp, a viola da gamba, a theorbo, kettle-drums, and four horns, besides what is called the quatuor of stringed instruments, the first and second violins, the viola or tenor, the violoncello, and double-bass. In his hautbois concertos, opera 3rd, 1734, there are compositions for 2 violins, 2 hautboys, 2 flutes, 2 viols, 2 bassoons, 2 violoncellos, and a thorough-bass. Many of his airs have a simple accompaniment for the violoncello with harpsichord. In some of his accompaniments the violette is mentioned, a name we have already noticed as a variety of the viol, but an air in "Orlando," 1732, is accompanied
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