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

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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1875

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1INDEX.
3PAGE
4Raymond, Jacob, founder of Violin making in England, 168, 200
5Reade, Charles, and Louis Tarisio 240
6Reade, Charles, on the Violin, 40, 68, 101, 134
7Rebec, the … … … 4
8Reggieri … … … 108
9Reichel, Johann Conrad … 215
10Reichel, Johann Gottfried … 215
11Reinault … … … 159
12Remmy … … … 159
13Renisto … … … 108
14Repairers, pretended … … 20
15Rode, his compositions … 270
16Rogers's four-part Airs for Violins 262
17"Romance of Fiddle-dealing" 241
18Rook, Joseph … … 201
19Ross (i.) … … … 200
20Ross (ii.) … … … 200
21Roth, Christian … … 215
22Rovelli … … … 108
23Royal Amateur, a … … 312
24Royal Academy of Music … 277
25Royal Society of Musicians, origin 275
26Rudger … … … 108
27Rugerius … … … 13
28Rugerius, Guido … … 110
29Rugerius, Johannes Baptiste … 110
30Rugerius, Pietro Giacomo … 110
31Rugerius, Pietro Vincenzo … 110
32Ruggierius, Franciscus ("Il Per") compared with Amati and Stradiuarius, his material and varnish … … … 109
33Ruppert, Francis … … 215
35S
36Sackbut and Trombone … 257
37Sainton, M. … … … 271
38Sale of Gillott Collection of Instruments … … … 322
39Sale of Musical Instruments … 320
40Salle … … … 159
41Salo, Gaspard di, laid the foundation of the Italian style; his model, and its variations; specimens extant … 110—114
42Saloman, his spirit and enterprise in bringing Haydn to England; his symphonies … 276
43Salzar … … … 159
44Sancte, Giovanni … … 115
45Sanctus Seraphino, his exquisite finish, his varnish, method of cutting, copied Amati and Stainer … … … 115
46Sanoni, Giovanni Baptista … 115
47Sanzo … … … 115
48Sapino … … … 115
49Saunier … … … 159
50Scheinlein, Jean Michael … 215
51Scheinlein, Matthias Frederick 215
52Schlick … … … 215
53Schmidt … … … 215
54Schönger, Francis … … 215
55Schönger, George … … 215
56Schorn, Jacob … … … 215
57Schorn, Johann … … … 215
58Schott, Martin … … … 216
59Scroll, the Missing … 287—289
60Selection of material by the Old Masters … … … 14
61Shaw … … … 201
62Simpson, John … … 201
63Sivori, Camillo, his style … 269
64"Slab back," the … 11—12
65"Small-coal man," Thomas Britton … … … 262
66Smith, Henry … … … 201
67Smith, Thomas … … … 201
68Smith, William … … … 201
69"Sonata del Diavolo," Tartini's, origin of … … … 319
70Soquer … … … 159
71Sound-bar, the, 15; oblique position, 15; second … 156
72Sound-hole, the, 17; of Guarnerius del Jesù, 88; of Gaspard di Salo … … 112
73Sound-post … … … 16—17
74South Kensington Museum … 3
75Spagnoletti, Violinist … … 277
76Speiler … … … 216
77Spohr, and his "Guarnerius" … 324
78Sphor, Louis, his compositions 284
79Stainer, Jacob, second only to Cremonese artists; his model inferior to the Italian; his history obscure, "Elector Stainers," his followers … 221
80Statelman, Daniel … … 221
81Statelman, Johann Joseph … 221
82Stew-pans, Lully and the … 261
83Stolen "Strad," a … … 293
84Stolen Tenor, quick recovery of 295
85Storioni, copied del Jesù … 115
86"Strad," a stolen … … 293
87"Strad, the long" … … 128
88Stradiuarius … 12, 13, 117—137
89Stradiuarius, Antonius; his renown; traces of his personal history, his tomb and burial, his family, his house with sketch, was he a pupil of Amati? specimens of his work with engravings, his varnish; the "long Strad," three periods of his life, surpassing gracefulness of his work and its individuality, his extraordinary care in the selection of material; his perfect model, varnish, 117—137
90Stradiuarius, Franciscus … 137
91Stradiuarius, Omobono … 138
92Stradiuariuses, living … … 296

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