Musical Instruments [1876]

by Carl Engel

• Al-Farabi, a great performer on the lute, [57]
• American Indian instruments, [59], [77]
• American value of inquiry, [59]
• American trumpets, [67]
• American theories as to origin from musical instruments, [80]
• Arab instruments very numerous, [56]
• Archlute, [109], [115]
• Ashantee trumpet, [2]
• Asor explained, [19]
• Assyrian instruments, [16]
• “Aulos,” [32]
• Bagpipe, Hebrew, [23]
• Bagpipe, Greek, [31]
• Bagpipe, Celtic, [119]
• Barbiton, [31], [34]
• Bells, Hebrew, [25]
• Bells, Peruvian, [75]
• Bells, and ringing, [121-123]
• Blasius, Saint, the manuscript, [86]
• Bones, traditions about them, [47]
• Bones, made into flutes, [64]
• Bottles, as musical instruments, [71]
• Bow, see Violin
• Bruce, his discovery of harps on frescoes, [11]
• Capistrum, [35]
• Carillon, [121], [124]
• Catgut, how made, [1]
• Chanterelle, [114]
• Chelys, [30]
• Chinese instruments, [38]
• Chinese bells, [40]
• Chinese drum, [44]
• Chinese flutes, [45]
• Chinese board of music, [80]
• Chorus, [99]
• Cimbal, or dulcimer, [5]
• Cithara, [86]
• Cithara, Anglican, [92]
• Cittern, [113]
• Clarion, [113]
• Cornu, [36]
• Crowd, [94]
• Crwth, [34], [93]
• Cymbals, Hebrew, [25]
• Cymbals, or cymbalum, [105]
• Cymbals, [113]
• David’s (King) private band, [19]
• David’s his favourite instrument, [20]
• Diaulos, [32]
• Drum, Hebrew, [24]
• Drum, Greek, [32]
• Drum, Chinese, [44]
• Drum, Mexican, [71], [73]
• Dulcimer, [5]
• Dulcimer, Assyrian, [17]
• Dulcimer, Hebrew, [19]
• Dulcimer, Persian prototype, [54]
• Egyptian (ancient) musical instruments, [10]
• Egyptian harps, [11]
• Egyptian flutes, [12]
• Etruscan instruments, [33]
• Etruscan flutes, [33]
• Etruscan trumpet, [33]
• Fiddle, originally a poor contrivance, [50]
• Fiddle, Anglo-saxon, [95]
• Fiddle, early German, [95]
• Fistula, [36]
• Flute, Greek, [32]
• Flute, Persian, [56]
• Flute, Mexican, [63]
• Flute, Peruvian, [63]
• Flute, mediæval, [100]
• “Free reed,” whence imported, [5]
• Gerbert, abbot, [86]
• Greek instruments, [27]
• Greek music, whence derived, [27]
• Hallelujah, compared with Peruvian song, [82]
• Harmonicon, Chinese, [42]
• Harp, Egyptian, [11]
• Harp, Assyrian, [16]
• Harp, Hebrew, [19]
• Harp, Greek, [28]
• Harp, Anglo-saxon, [89]
• Harp, Irish, [90]
• Hebrew instruments, [19], [26]
• Hebrew pipe, [22]
• Hebrew drum, [24]
• Hebrew cymbals, [25]
• Hebrew words among Indians, [83]
• Hindu instruments, [46-48]
• Hurdy-gurdy, [107]
• Hydraulos, hydraulic organ, [33]
• Instruments, curious shapes, [2]
• Instruments, value and use of collections, [4], [5], [7]
• Instruments, Assyrian and Babylonian, [18]
• Jubal, [26]
• Juruparis, its sacred character, [68]
• Kinnor, [20]
• King, Chinese, [39]
• King, various shapes, [40]
• Lute, Chinese, [46]
• Lute, Persian, [54]
• Lute, Moorish, [57]
• Lute, Elizabethan, [114]
• Lyre, Assyrian, [17]
• Lyre, Hebrew, [19]
• Lyre, Hebrew, of the time of Joseph, [21]
• Lyre, Greek, [29], [30]
• Lyre, Roman, [34]
• Lyre, Roman, various kinds, [34]
• Lyre, early Christian, [86]
• Lyre, early German “lyra,” [95]
• Magadis, [27], [31]
• Magrepha, [23]
• Maori trumpet, [2]
• Materials, commonly, of instruments, [1]
• Mediæval musical instruments, [85]
• Mediæval musical instruments, derived from Asia, [85]
• Mexican instruments, [60]
• Mexican whistle, [60]
• Mexican pipe, [61], [81]
• Mexican flute, [63]
• Mexican trumpet, [69], [82]
• Mexican drum, [71]
• Mexican songs, [79]
• Mexican council of music, [80]
• Minnim, [22]
• Monochord, [98]
• Moorish instruments adopted in England, [56]
• Muses on a vase at Munich, [30]
• Music one of the fine arts, [1]
• Nablia, [35], [88]
• Nadr ben el-Hares, [54]
• Nareda, inventor of Hindu instruments, [46]
• Nero coin with an organ, [34]
• Nofre, a guitar, [11]
• Oboe, Persian, [56]
• Oliphant, [101]
• Orchestra, [107]
• Orchestra, modifications, [7]
• Organistrum, [98], [111]
• Organ, [101]
• Organ, pneumatic and hydraulic, [101]
• Organ, in MS. of Eadwine, [103]
• Pandoura, [31]
• Pedal, invented, [103]
• Persian instruments, [51]
• Persian harp, [51]
• Peruvian pipes, [65]
• Peruvian drum, [74]
• Peruvian bells, [75]
• Peruvian stringed instruments, [77]
• Peruvian songs, [78], [79]
• Peterborough paintings of violins, [95]
• Pipe, single and double, [22]
• Pipe, Mexican, [61]
• Pipe, Peruvian, [65]
• Plektron, [30]
• Poongi, Hindu, [51]
• Pre-historic instruments, [9]
• Psalterium, [35], [87], [89], [111], [113]
• Rattle of Nootka Sound, [2]
• Rattle American Indian, [74]
• Rebeck, [94], [113]
• Recorder, [119]
• Regal, [103]
• Roman musical instruments, [34]
• Roman lyre, [34]
• Rotta, or rote, [91], [92]
• Sackbut, [101], [113]
• Sambuca, [35]
• Santir, [5], [54]
• Sêbi, the, [12]
• Shalm, [113]
• Shophar, still used by the Jews, [24]
• Sistrum, Hebrew, [25]
• Sistrum, Roman, [37]
• Songs, Peruvian and Mexican, [79]
• Stringed instruments, [3]
• Syrinx, [23], [113]
• Syrinx, Greek, [32]
• Syrinx, Roman, [36]
• Syrinx, Peruvian, [64], [81]
• Tamboura, [22], [47]
• Temples in China, [46]
• Theorbo, [109], [115]
• Tibia, [35]
• Timbrel, [113]
• Tintinnabulum, [106]
• Triangle, [106]
• Trigonon, [27], [30], [35]
• Trumpet, Assyrian, [18]
• Trumpet, Hebrew, [24]
• Trumpet, Greek, [32]
• Trumpet, Roman, [36]
• Trumpet, American Indian, [67]
• Trumpet, of the Caroados, [69]
• Trumpet, Mexican, [69], [82]
• Tympanon, [32]
• Universality of musical instruments, [1]
• Vielle, [107], [108]
• Vihuela, [111]
• Vina, Hindu, [47]
• Vina, performer, [48]
• Viol, Spanish, [111], [117]
• Viol, da gamba, [117]
• Violin bow invented by Hindus? [49]
• Violin Persian, [50]
• Violin mediæval, [95]
• Virginal, [114]
• Wait, the instrument, [113]
• Water, supposed origin of musical instruments, [47]
• Whistle, prehistoric, [9]
• Whistle, Mexican, [60]
• Wind instruments, [3]
• Yu, Chinese stone, [39]
• Yu, Chinese wind instrument, [45]

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Transcriber's Note:

Inconsistent punctuation and capitalization are as in the original.

Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.