CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
PLATE I. BURGMOTE HORNS.
PLATE II. QUEEN MARY'S HARP.
PLATE III. THE LAMONT HARP.
PLATE IV. CORNEMUSE, CALABRIAN BAGPIPE, MUSETTE.
PLATE V. BAGPIPES.
PLATE VI. CLAVICYTHERIUM OR UPRIGHT SPINET.
PLATE VII. OLIPHANT.
PLATE VIII. QUEEN ELIZABETH'S VIRGINAL.
PLATE IX. QUEEN ELIZABETH'S LUTE.
PLATE X. THE RIZZIO GUITAR.
PLATE XI. POSITIVE ORGAN.
PLATE XII. REGAL.
PLATE XIII. PORTABLE ORGAN AND BIBLE REGAL.
PLATE XIV. CETERA.
PLATE XV. LUTE.
PLATE XVI. THEORBO.
PLATE XVII. DULCIMER.
PLATE XVIII. VIRGINAL.
PLATE XIX. VIOLA DA GAMBA.
PLATE XX. DOUBLE SPINET OR VIRGINAL.
PLATE XXI. THREE CHITARRONI .
PLATE XXII. SPINET.
PLATE XXIII. QUINTERNA AND MANDOLINE.
PLATE XXIV. WELSH CRWTH. RUSSIAN BALALAIKA.
PLATE XXV. VIOLIN, THE HELLIER STRADIVARIUS, AND TWO OLD BOWS NOTED FOR THE FLUTING.
PLATE XXVI. VIOLINS, THE ALARD STRADIVARIUS, THE KING JOSEPH GUARNERIUS DEL GESÙ.
PLATE XXVII. VIOLA D'AMORE .
PLATE XXVIII. CETERA, BY ANTONIUS STRADIVARIUS.
PLATE XXIX. GUITAR, BY ANTONIUS STRADIVARIUS.
PLATE XXX. BELL HARP AND HURDY-GURDY.
PLATE XXXI. SORDINI.
PLATE XXXII. CLAVICHORD.
PLATE XXXIII. THE EMPRESS HARPSICHORD.
PLATE XXXIV. PEDAL HARP.
PLATE XXXV. STATE TRUMPET AND KETTLEDRUM.
PLATE XXXVI. CAVALRY BUGLE, WITH TASSELS. CAVALRY TRUMPET,
PLATE XXXVII. LITUUS, ROMAN CAVALRY. BUCCINA, ROMAN INFANTRY. CORNET, WITH TWO VALVES. TRUMPETS.
PLATE XXXVIII. TWO DOUBLE FLAGEOLETS, A GERMAN FLUTE, AND TWO FLuTES DOUCES .
PLATE XXXIX. DOLCIANO . OBOE. BASSOON. OBOE DA CACCIA . BASSET HORN.
PLATE XL. SITARS AND VINA.
PLATE XLI. INDIAN DRUMS.
PLATE XLII. SAW DUANG and BOW. SAW TAI and BOW. SAW OO and BOW. KLUI. PEE.
PLATE XLIII. RANAT EK. KHONG YAI. TA'KHAY.
PLATE XLIV. HU-CH'IN and BOW. SHeNG. SAN-HSIEN. P'I-P'A.
PLATE XLV. CHINESE TI-TZU, SO-NA, YUEH-CH'IN. JAPANESE HIJI-RIKI. CHINESE LA-PA.
PLATE XLVI. JAPANESE KOTO.
PLATE XLVII. SIAMISEN, KOKIU, BIWA.
PLATE XLVIII. MARIMBA, OF SOUTH AFRICA.
INDEX
Transcriber's Note
Obvious printer errors have been corrected without note. For clarity, the frontispiece illustration (Plate I.) has been moved to its appropriate chapter.
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Historic, Rare and Unique
THE SELECTION, INTRODUCTION AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES
BY
A.J. HIPKINS, F.S.A. Lond.
AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE "PIANOFORTE" IN THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA
ILLUSTRATED BY
A SERIES OF FORTY-EIGHT PLATES IN COLOURS
DRAWN BY WILLIAM GIBB
A. AND C. BLACK, LTD.
4, 5 AND 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.1
1921
First published in 1888.
Printed in Great Britain
