CHAPTER XXVII.

AT ALEXANDRIA—THE FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE SCALE 342

INDEX 343

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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 The 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 Lyre 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

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