Musical Instruments [1908]

by Carl Engel

• Fagott, [127].
• Fagotto piccolo, [128].
• Fang-hsiang, [40].
• Fiddle, Anglo-Saxon, [90].
• ”   Bengalese, [50].
• ”   Chinese, [51].
• ”   German, [90].
• ”   Hindu and Indian, [50], [88].
• ”   Moorish, [90].
• Fidis or Fides, [33].
• Fidla, [113].
• Finnish instrument, [47], [88].
• Fistula, [35].
• Fithele (fiddle), [114].
• Flageolet, English, [125], [126].
• ”   Japanese, [45].
• Flauto dolce, [125].
• Flutes, American Indian, [82].
• ”   Arab, [55].
• ”   Aztec, [60].
• ”   Chinese, [42].
• ”   Egyptian, [12].
• Flutes, Etruscan, [32].
• ”   German, [126].
• ”   Greek, [31].
• ”   of Guiana Indians, [62].
• ”   Hebrew, [23], [26].
• ”   Hindu, [47].
• ”   Japanese, [45].
• ”   Mexican, [58] seq.
• ”   Peruvian, [58] seq.
• ”   Phrygian, [28].
• ”   Roman, [34].
• Flûte à bec, [125].
• ”   d’Angleterre, [125], [126].
• ”   traversière, [126].
• Forkel, quoted, [23].
• Fortunatus, quoted, [89], [90].
• Franz, Karl, [115].
• Free reed, [5].
• French instruments, [112], [125], [126], [128], [129].
• Frestele, Fretel or Fretiau, [94].
• Fuye, [45].

• Gage, John, quoted, [128].
• Gaspard di Salo, [118].
• Gerbert, Abbot, mentioned, [84], [89], [90].
• Gittern, [56], [102], [108].
• Gittith, [25], [26].
• Gizeh, [13].
• Gongs, Chinese, [45].
• ”   Egyptian, [14].
• ”   Japanese, [45].
• ”   Mexican, [80].
• ”   Tezcucan, [73].
• Greek instruments, [27] seq.
• Guatemala, instrument of, [82].
• Guitar, instruction books for, [108], [109].
• Guitar, Japanese, [44].
• ”   mediæval, [102].
• ”   post-mediæval, [108], [109].
• ”   Spanish, [110].
• Gut-komm, [43].
• Gythorn, [108].

• Handel’s harpsichord, [135].
• Harmonica, [97].
• Harmonicon, Chinese, [2], [37], [40].
• Harmonicon, The, quoted, [126].
• Harps, Anglo-Saxon, [87].
• ”   Arabian, [53].
• ”   Assyrian, [16], [28].
• ”   Burmese, [16].
• ”   Celtic, [87].
• ”   Egyptian, [11].
• ”   Finnish, [88].
• ”   French, [112].
• ”   German, [87].
• ”   Greek, [28], [29].
• ”   Hebrew, [19].
• ”   Hindu, [50].
• ”   Irish, [88], [110-112].
• ”   mediæval, [89], [100-102].
• ”   Persian, [53].
• ”   Scandinavian, [87].
• Harp-guitar, [110].
• ”   lute, [110].
• Harpsichord, [116], [121], [123].
• ”   Handel’s, authenticity of, [135] seq.
• Harpsichord-makers, [123], [136].
• Harp-theorbo, [110].
• Harpu, [88].
• Harp-ventura, [110].
• Hautboy, [126].
• Haydn, [116].
• Hebrew instruments, [19] seq.
• Hentzner, Paul, quoted, [131].
• Hichiriki, [45].
• Hindu instruments, [3], [46], [52], [88], [89], [93].
• Hindus, musical scale of, [50].
• Holmos or mouth-piece, [35].
• Horn, English, [127].
• ”   Greek, [32].
• ”   Hebrew, [24].
• Hsiao, [42].
• Hsüan, [42].
• Hsüan-chung, [39].
• Huanca, [72].
• Huayllaca, [62].
• Huayra-puhura, [63], [79].
• Huehuetl, [71], [80].
• Hydraulis, [32].

• Icelandic instrument, [114].
• Ikuta-goto, [44], [45].
• Instrument makers, [106], [111], [114-116], [118], [122-126], [128], [129], [136], [137].
• Instruments, decoration of, [2], [8], [11], [16], [39], [41], [42], [109], [112], [113], [115], [116], [123], [136].
• Intervals, diatonic, [112].
• ”   in American Indian instruments, [79].
• Intervals in Chinese instruments, [39].
• Intervals in Persian instruments, [53].
• Irish bards, meetings of, [111].
• ”   instruments, [89].
• Isis, worship of, [36].
• Italian instruments, [106-109], [113], [120], [123], [130].

• Japanese instruments, [3], [4], [44] seq.
• Jars, musical, [69].
• Javanese instruments, [2], [3].
• Jerusalem, Temple of, [19], [23].
• Jew’s harp, [102].
• Jinagovi, [52].
• Jobel, [25].
• Jones, Edward, quoted, [90].
• Junk, [53].
• Juruparis, [66].

• Kach’-hapi, [47].
• Kalmuks, trumpet of the, [80].
• Kane, [46].
• Kantele, [47], [88].
• Kei, [45].
• Kemángeh, [55].
• Ken, [42].
• Keras, [32].
• Keren, [24].
• Keyboards, instruments with, [120-125].
• Khorsabad, [16].
• Kinnor, [20].
• Kiōto, bell at, [46].
• Kithara, Asiatic, [27].
• ”   Greek, [28], [29].
• K’iu (wood), [41].
• Ko-kiū, [44].
• Kosà, [130].
• Koto, [44].
• Kouyunjik, [16].
• Kratzenstein, [6].
• Krotala, [32].
• Ku, [41].
• Kuan-tzŭ, [42].
• K’uei, musician, [37].
• Kuitra, [56], [108].
• Kymbala, [32].

• Langspiel, [114].
• Laos, instruments of, [4], [42].
• Launedda, [36].
• Lay, T., quoted, [43].
• Lei-ku, [41].
• Leighton, Sir W., quoted, [130].
• Lidl, Anton, [115].
• Lionedda, [36].
• Lira di braccio, [101].
• Lituus, [35].
• Lombrive, [10].
• Lute, [104], [105], [116].
• ”   Arab, [54].
• ”   Hindu, [89].
• ”   Japanese, [44].
• ”   mediæval, [102].
• ”   Moorish, [56].
• ”   Tibetan, [43].
• Lute-makers, principal, [106], [116].
• Lutists, Arabian, [54], [55], [56].
• Lydians, Kithara of, [28].
• Lyra, German, [90].
• ”   Greek, [28].
• ”   Roman, [33].
• Lyre, [84].
• ”   Assyrian, [18].
• ”   Greek, [27] seq.
• ”   Hebrew, [20].
• ”   Roman, [33].

• Mace, Thomas, quoted, [104], [105], [119].
• Machalath, [22], [25], [26].
• Machol, [26].
• Magadis, [27], [30], [52].
• Magoudi, [52].
• Magrepha, [23], [24].
• Mam, [13].
• Mandoline, [107], [108].
• Mandora, [108].
• Mandorina, [108].
• Marimba, [82].
• Martin, instrument-maker, [118].
• Mattheson, quoted, [105].
• Melozzo da Forlì, painting by, [97].
• Melrose Abbey, sculpture at, [97].
• Melville, Sir James, quoted, [120].
• Menaaneim, [25].
• Metzilloth, [25].
• Metzilthaim, [25].
• Mexican instruments, [59], [80] seq.
• Miao-tsze, [43].
• Middle Ages, instruments of the, [83].
• Minnim, [22], [23].
• Miriam, [25].
• Mishrokitha, [23].
• Monaulos, [31].
• Monochord, [31], [92].
• Moorish instruments, [56], [108].
• Mosul, bas-relief from, [16].
• Mozart, [107].
• Munich Museum, vase in, [28].
• Music, ancient books on, [48], [84].
• ”   supposed origin of, [47].

• Nabla, [30].
• Nablas, [27].
• Nablia, [34].
• Nablum, [86], [100].
• Naker, [56].
• Naḳḳárah, [56].
• Nakrys, [56].
• Nara, bell near, [46].
• Nebuchadnezzar, [18].
• Nechiloth, [25], [26].
• Nefer, [12].
• Nekeb, [23].
• Nevel, [19], [22], [30].
• New Guinea, instruments of, [2].
• New Zealand, instruments of, [2].
• “Nibelungenlied,” The, [90].
• Nimroud, [16], [18].
• Nineveh, [16].
• Nootka Sound, instrument of, [2].
• Norwegian instruments, [113].
• Nuy, [55].

• Oboe da caccia, [127].
• ”   d’amore, [127].
• ”   Hindu, [79].
• ”   lungo, [127].
• ”   Persian, [55].
• ”   piccolo, [127].
• Ocarina, Chinese, [42].
• Octave, Arabian, [54].
• ”   Chinese, [39].
• Octavina (Ottavino), [120].
• Oliphant, [94].
• Organ, Burmese, [42].
• ”   Chinese, [42].
• ”   English, [129].
• ”   French, [129].
• ”   Gamba stop in, [115].
• ”   German, [129].
• ”   Hebrew, [24].
• ”   hydraulic, [32].
• ”   pneumatic, [94].
• ”   portative, [129], [130].
• ”   positive, [129].
• ”   Siamese, [42].
• Organ-builders, German, [129].
• Organ-harpsichord, [124].
• Organistrum, [92], [99], [101].
• Orchestras, mediæval, [99].
• Orpheus, Chinese, [37].
• Ottavino, or Octavina, [120].
• Ovalle, Alonso de, quoted, [62].