MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - online book

A Dissertation On The History And Development Of Musical Instruments In Various Cultures From The Earliest Times.

By Carl Engel published For The Committee Of Council On Education Chapman And Hall, Ltd., London. Circa 1875

About This Book
Music, in however primitive a stage of development it may be with some nations, is universally appreciated as one of the Fine Arts. The origin of vocal music may have been coeval with that of language; and the construction of musical instruments evidently dates with the earliest inventions which suggested themselves to human ingenuity. There exist even at the present day some savage tribes in Australia and South America who, although they have no more than the five first numerals in their language and are thereby unable to count the fingers of both hands together, nevertheless possess musical instruments of their own contrivance, with which they accompany their songs and dances. Wood, metal, and the hide of animals, are the most common substances used in the construction of musical instruments. In tropical countries bamboo or some similar kind of cane and gourds are especially made use of for this purpose. The ingenuity of man has contrived to employ in producing music, horn, bone, glass, pottery, slabs of sonorous stone,—in fact, almost all vibrating matter. The strings of instruments have been made of the hair of animals, of silk, the runners of creeping plants, the fibrous roots of certain trees, of cane, catgut (which absurdly referred to the cat, is from the sheep, goat, lamb, camel, and some other animals), metal, &c. This book will explore all these and much more.

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Preface Title Page LIST OF WOODCUTS LIST OF WOODCUTS LIST OF WOODCUTS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 1 intro - 0101.htm Page - 0102.htm Page - 0103.htm Page - 0104.htm Page - 0105.htm Page - 0106.htm Page - 0107.htm Page - 0108.htm Prehistoric whistle - 0109.htm Page - 0110.htm Page - 0111.htm Page - 0112.htm Ancient Egyptian flute concert - 0113.htm Page - 0114.htm Page - 0115.htm CHAPTER III - 0116.htm Page - 0117.htm Page - 0118.htm Page - 0119.htm Page - 0120.htm Page - 0121.htm The supposed Hebrew lyre at Beni Hassan - 0122.htm Page - 0123.htm Ancient bagpipe from Tarsus - 0124.htm Hebiew trumpets, from the arch of Titus - 0125.htm Page - 0126.htm CHAPTER IV The Greeks - 0127.htm Grecian harp and lyre - 0128.htm Greek lyres - 0129.htm Page - 0130.htm Greek flutes - 0131.htm The diaulos - 0132.htm Etruscan cornu - 0133.htm Hydraulic organ - 0134.htm Page - 0135.htm Roman girl and tibia, Roman trumpets - 0136.htm Page - 0137.htm CHAPTER V The Chinese - 0138.htm Chinese king - 0139.htm Page - 0140.htm Chinese king pien-tchung - 0141.htm Chinese king hiuen-tchung - 0142.htm Chinese king ou, Chinese king tchou - 0143.htm Chinese king kin-kou - 0144.htm Chinese king hiuen - 0145.htm Chinese king cheng - 0146.htm Page - 0147.htm Page - 0148.htm Hindustan, vina - 0149.htm Page - 0150.htm Persian, chang - 0151.htm bagpipe - 0152.htm Turkish harp - 0153.htm Page - 0154.htm Persian dulcimer - 0155.htm The rebab - 0156.htm Page - 0157.htm Page - 0158.htm Page - 0159.htm Aztec whistles - 0160.htm Antique pipe from central America - 0161.htm

Pipes of the Aztecs - 0162.htm Page - 0163.htm Peruvian bone pipe - 0164.htm huayra-puhura - 0165.htm Page - 0166.htm Orinoco Indian trumpet - 0167.htm South American Juruparis - 0168.htm Page - 0169.htm Indian trumpets - 0170.htm Page - 0171.htm Aztec drums - 0172.htm San Domingo drum - 0173.htm Page - 0174.htm Peruvian bell - 0175.htm Aztec cluster of bells - 0176.htm Page - 0177.htm Page - 0178.htm Page - 0179.htm Page - 0180.htm Page - 0181.htm Page - 0182.htm Page - 0183.htm Page - 0184.htm Page - 0185.htm Cithara, ninth century - 0186.htm Psalterium, Nablum - 0187.htm Citole - 0188.htm Anglo-saxon harp - 0189.htm Harp, ninth cti.tury - 0190.htm Ancient Irish harp, German rotte - 0191.htm Rotta - 0192.htm Irish rotta - 0193.htm The crwth - 0194.htm The old English crowd - 0195.htm The French crout - 0196.htm Anglo-saxon fiddle, German riddle, ninth century - 0197.htm Page - 0198.htm Organistrum - 0199.htm Monochord - 0200.htm Single chorus, Double chorus, Sackbut - 0201.htm Syrinx .. - 0202.htm Pneumatic organ, fourth century - 0203.htm Organ, twelfth century, Regal - 0204.htm Cymbalum, ninth century - 0205.htm Bunibulum - 0206.htm Page - 0207.htm Orchestra on bas-relief - 0208.htm Vielle - 0209.htm Orchestra, twelfth century, at Santiago - 0210.htm Page - 0211.htm The minstrels' gallery, at Exeter cathedral - 0212.htm Page - 0213.htm Virginal - 0214.htm Page - 0215.htm Lute, Elizabethan - 0216.htm Page - 0217.htm Viola da gamba - 0218.htm Recorder - 0219.htm Scotch bagpipe, eighteenth century - 0220.htm Irish bagpipe, sixteenth century - 0221.htm Carillon, Netherlands - 0222.htm Page - 0223.htm Page - 0224.htm Page - 0225.htm INDEX- 0226.htm Page - 0227.htm Page - 0228.htm