Category: History - Other
In the preparation of the revised edition of the late Dr. Engel’s handbook, first published in 1875, care has been taken to make as few alterations as possible and to express no views from which he might have dissented.
In the preparation of the revised edition of the late Dr. Engel’s handbook, first published in 1875, care has been taken to make as few alterations as possible and to express no...
2. Part 2Moreover, a collection of musical instruments deserves the attention of the ethnologist as much as of the musician. Indeed, this may be asserted of national music in general; fo...
3. Part 3THE LYRE.――This instrument is represented on some Hebrew coins generally ascribed to Judas Maccabæus, who lived in the second century before the Christian era. There are several...
4. Part 4The flute, _tibia_, was originally made of the shin bone, and had a mouth-hole and four finger-holes. Its shape was retained even when, at a later period, it was constructed of...
5. Part 5It is a suggestive fact that we find among several nations in different parts of the world an ancient tradition, according to which their most popular stringed instrument was or...
6. Part 6The pipe of the Aztecs, which is called by the Mexican Spaniards _pito_, somewhat resembled our flageolet: the material was a reddish pottery, and it was provided with four ling...
7. Part 7Again, in South America sonorous stones are not unknown, and were used in olden time for musical purposes. The traveller G. T. Vigne saw among the Indian antiquities preserved i...
8. Part 8The Anglo-Saxons frequently accompanied their vocal effusions with a harp, more or less triangular in shape, an instrument which may be considered rather as constituting the tra...
9. Part 9In examining the group of musicians on this sculpture the reader will probably recognise several instruments in their hands which are identical with those already described in t...
10. Part 10Of the stringed instruments used in our orchestra, the _violin_ (Fig. 52) is the one which has been longest preserved entirely unaltered. Its name (Italian, _violino_), a diminu...
11. Part 11The _claviorganum_, or organ-harpsichord, consists of an organ and a harpsichord (or a spinet) combined. Either can be played separately or with the other together. The separati...
12. Part 12This interesting relic of Handel is also worthy of notice from having been one of the best-constructed instruments of the celebrated harpsichord makers, the Ruckers family of An...