| Plates. |
| Apollo with his Lyre, by Praxiteles | Frontispiece. |
| Cane Harp from Borneo, with Tambourine Bells | Facing page 304. |
| Figure. | Page. |
| 1 | Queen Hatasu’s Three Stringed Egyptian Lyre | 13 |
| 2 | Ancient Greek Players on Flute, and Pan’s Pipes | 16 |
| 3 | Ancient Peruvian Stone Syrinx | 17 |
| 4 | Peruvian Pan’s Pipes, Double Set from a Tomb in Arica | 18 |
| 5 | Pair of Gingroi Flutes found in Lady Maket’s Tomb | 31 |
| 6 | The Egyptian Arghool Reed, Full Size | 35 |
| 7 | The Hautboy Reed, Full Size | 35 |
| 8 | Egyptian Player on the Double Pipes | 44 |
| 9 | Egyptian Player upon Unequal Pipes | 45 |
| 10 | Egyptian Musical Entertainment, from a Tomb-painting in the British Museum | 46 |
| 11 | The Arghool Reed Pipe with its Drone | 56 |
| 12 | The Egyptian Zummarah | 57 |
| 13 | Player on the Egyptian Seba or Sabi | 58 |
| 14 | Arab Player on the Nay Flute | 59 |
| 15 | Etruscan Player on the Pipes, with Phorbia | 70 |
| 16 | The Satyr Handling the Auloi or Greek Reed Flutes | 74 |
| 17 | The Muse Euterpe Preparing her Flutes | 77 |
| 18 | xivThe Muse Meledosa with her Flutes Complete | 79 |
| 19 | The Greek Mon-Aulos, set in Two Modes | 89 |
| 20 | The Greek Silkworm Flutes | 96 |
| 21 | The Flageolet Proper | 98 |
| 22 | The Pompeian Flutes in the Naples Museum | 111 |
| 23 | The Bulb-head found by M. Maspero | 125 |
| 24 | Midas, the Flute Player, Statue in the British Museum | 134 |
| 25 | The Bronze-ringed Flutes in the British Museum | 135 |
| 26 | The Chinese P’ai-hsiao or Pan’s Pipes | 157 |
| 27 | The Chinese Te-ching or Stone Chime | 161 |
| 28 | The Chinese Sheng or Bird’s Nest | 182 |
| 29 | A Pipe of the Sheng, Full Size | 184 |
| 30 | Diagram of the Plan of the Sheng | 202 |
| 31 | The Siamese Phan with Free Reeds | 210 |
| 32 | Japanese Pitch Pipes, Full Size | 213 |
| 33 | Clarionet of the Japanese, the Hichi-riki | 222 |
| 34 | The Chinese Large Bell, the Po-chung | 234 |
| 35 | The Chinese Gong Chimes or Yung-lo | 235 |
| 36 | The Chinese Dragon Flute | 239 |
| 37 | The Chinese Flute, the Hwang-chong-tche | 241 |
| 38 | Native Chinese Flute Player | 243 |
| 39 | The Krena, a Flute of the Indian Quechas | 245 |
| 40 | The Chinese Violin | 251 |
| 41 | The Ch’in or Scholars Lute, the Favourite of Confucius | 255 |
| 42 | Assyrian Harp with Plectrum | 262 |
| 43 | The Chinese Hwangteih or Trumpet | 268 |
| 44 | The Chinese Haot’ung or Trumpet | 268 |
| 45 | The Chinese La-pa or Trumpet | 271 |
| 46 | The Chinese Yu or Rattling Tiger | 272 |
| 47 | Egyptian Five-stringed Lyre, from Beni-Hassan | 288 |
| 48 | Egyptian Player on the Upright Lyre | 289 |
| 49 | Grand Harp from the Tomb of Rameses III. | 290 |
| 50 | Triangular Egyptian Harp, in the Louvre, Paris | 292 |
| 51 | xvLyre Carried by the Stranger in Egypt | 293 |
| 52 | The Kissar or Harp of the Nile | 294 |
| 53 | Harp Players at Nimroud, from the British Museum | 290 |
| 54 | Egyptian Magadis Player with Plectrum | 297 |
| 55 | Small Upright Egyptian Lyre | 297 |
| 56 | Egyptian Lyre, in the Berlin Museum | 298 |
| 57 | Player on the Egyptian Lute or Nefer | 300 |
| 58 | Dancer with the Nefer | 301 |
| 59 | The Cane Harp from Borneo, with Tamburine Bells | 304 |
| 60 | The Chelys or Greek Tortoiseshell Lyre | 309 |
| 61 | The Muse Terpsichore with a Lyre | 315 |
| 62 | Greek Players Tuning the Lyre and Dancing | 316 |
| 63 | The Muse Erato Playing the Psaltery | 317 |
| 64 | The Muse Erato Playing on a Trigon, from a Vase in the Munich Collection | 321 |
