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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
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1Salò, Gasparo da, and the four-stringed Violin, 25; the first of the great artistic makers, 63; scarcity of material as to his life-history, 156; characteristics of his work, 157, 162; founder of the Italian style, 158; Dragonetti's and Ole Bull's specimens of this maker, and their present possessors 161, 162
2Salomon, Jean Baptiste, 243; his concerts in London, 385; his negotiations with Haydn 386
3San Domenico, Cremona, burial-place of Stradivari 201
4Sanoni, Giovanni Battista 162
5Sanskrit Literature, References to the Violin in 5
6Santo, Giovanni 162
7Sanzo, Milan 162
8Sapino 162
9Saraband, Moorish 9
10Sardagna, Counsellor von, his contribution to Jacob Stainer's history 265
11Sardi 162
12Saunier 243
13Savart, his paper on the construction of bow instruments 225
14Sawicki 259
15Saxon Fiddle, in the Cottonian MSS. 16
16Scandinavian origin of the Violin, alleged 3
17Scheinlein, Johann Michael 260
18Scheinlein, Mathias F. 259
19Schell, Sebastian 260
20Schlick 260
21Schmidt 260
22Schnöck, Egidius 243
23Schonfelder, Johann A. 260
24Schonger, Georg 260
25Schonger, Franz 260
26Schorn, Johann, an excellent maker 260
27Schorn, Johann Paul 260
28Schott, Martin, Lute-maker 260
29Schuler, Dr. Johann, his novel, "Jacob Stainer" 266
30Schweitzer 260
31Scott, Sir Walter, on Music and Fiddles 427
32Scroll, A Wandering 432, 435
33Sellas, Matteo, Lute-maker 162
34Serafino, Santo (Sanctus Seraphin), famed for exquisite finish; German and Italian models; excellent varnish and handsome wood, but style inferior, and lacking originality 162, 163
35Shaw, Dr., his "Travels in the East" 8
36Shaw 316
37Silvestre, Hippolyte 243
38Silvestre, Hippolyte Chrétien 243
39Silvestre, Pierre, copyist of Stradivari, of high order and exquisite finish; fellow worker with Lupot and Gand 243
40Simon 243
41Simonin 243
42Simpson 316
43Simpson, Dr. Christopher, Anecdote of 475
44Sivori, Camillo, his high artistic career 378
45"Skit," A musical 409
46"Slab-back" and "Whole-back," The 31
47Smith, Henry 316
48Smith, Thomas 316
49Smith, William 316
50Sneider, Josefo; many of Girolamo Amati's instruments attributed to this maker 163
51Socchi, Vincenzo 164
52Socquet, Louis 244
53"Sonata del Diavolo," Tartini's 411
54Sonatas, Earliest appearance of 365
55Sound-bar, oblique position of, 34; its purpose and character 34
56Sound-holes, crescent-shaped, 22; of Gasparo and Amati, 23; shape and importance of 39
57Sound-post, its purpose and service, 35; its position, 36; methods of fixing 37
58Spohr, Louis, Violinist and composer; his Quartets and Duets 393
59Spohr and his Guarneri 452
60Spohr and the Collector 454
61"Sports and Pastimes," Strutt's 16
62Stadelmann, Daniel 260
63Stadelmann, Johann Joseph 260
64Stainer, Andreas 269
65Stainer, Jacob, the greatest of German artists, 260; his popularity, 261, 324; Sir John Hawkins' estimate of his work, 261; originality and peculiarity of his model, 261; variation in style, 262, 263; his "Elector
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