Scan 589
The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1INDEX.
3Maggini, Pietro, high character of work … 140
4Magnus Tieffenbrucker (Dieffopruchar, Magno) … 104
5Maler, Laux, Lute-maker (the "Stradivari of Lutes"); Thomas Mace on the prices of these instrument … 140
6Mann, Hans … 256
7Mantegazza, Pietro Giovanni, maker and repairer of Violins and Tenors; good work; patronised by Count Cozio … 141
8Manuscripts, Illuminated, of the Middle Ages … 11
9Maratti … 142
10Mariani, Antonio … 142
11Marquis de Lair … 237
12Marshall … 311
13Martin … 311
14Mast, Jean Laurent … 237
15Mast … 237
16Maucotel Charles … 237
17Maucotel, Charles Adolphe … 237
18Maussiell, Leonard … 256
19Mayer (Maier), Andreas … 257
20Mayseder, Joseph, Violinist … 393
21Meares, Richard … 311
22Médard, François … 238
23Médard, Jean … 238
24Médard, Nicolas … 238
25Meiberi, Francesco … 142
26"Memoirs of Music," Roger North's … 12, 63
27Mendelssohn and Haydn as performers on the Violin … 392
28Mennégand, Charles, distinguished as a maker, and also as a repairer and "cutter" … 238
29Meusidler, Johann … 257
30Mezadri, Alessandro … 142
31Mezadri, Francesco … 142
32"Michael Schnapps" the Fiddle Ogre … 461
33Middle Ages, Illuminated MSS. of the … 11
34Mier … 311
35Miremont, Claude Augustin, excellent work as a copyist … 239
36Missing Scroll, A … 432, 435
37Modena, Duke of, and Stradivari … 180
38Modessier … 239
39Mohr, Philip … 257
40Moldonner … 257
41Molique, Bernard, Violinist, and composer … 393
42Monochord, Arabian invention of Montagnana, Domenico, pupil of Antonio Stradivari, 142; termed "the Mighty Venetian," 143; his work frequently attributed to other great makers, 143; comparison of work with that of his fellow-maker, Carlo Bergonzi, 144; increasing popularity of his instruments, 146; high character of his varnish … 147
43Montagnana instrument shot through the body, A … 436
44Montaldi, Gregorio … 147
45Monteverde, Claudio, his opera "Orfeo" … 365
46Morella, famous for Viols and Lutes … 147
47Moorish influence on music in Spain … 9
48Mori, Nicholas, Violinist, and the Royal Academy of Music … 386
49Morisca, or Morris Dance, The … 9
50Mornington, Earl of, his early development of musical taste 385
51Morris Dance, the … 9
52Morrison, John … 311
53Mozart, Leopold, and his "Method" for the Violin; his early musical genius … 392
54Musical strings, materials used and places of manufacture … 44
55Musicians, Royal Society of, its origin … 384
56"Musick's Monument" of Thomas Mace … 140, 322
58N
60Nadotti, Giuseppe … 147
61Namy … 239
62Naylor, Isaac … 311
63Neck of the Violin, Form and material of … 37
64Nella, Raffaele … 147
65Netherlands, love of music in the … 20
66Nezot … 239
67Nicolas, Didier, Stradivari copyist; good tone … 239
68Nicolas, François (Nicolas Fourrier) … 239
69Nicolas, Joseph … 240
70Niggel, Simpertus … 257
71Norborn, John … 311
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