. . . . . . . 239

Farinato, Paolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Felden, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Fendt (or Fent) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Fendt, Bernard, an admirable workman, employed by Dodd and John
Betts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Fendt, Bernard Simon, a high-class maker of Italian models . . . 307

Fendt, Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Fendt, Jacob, clever copyist of Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Fendt, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Fendt, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Ferguson, Donald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Fesca, Violinist, and his quartettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Festing, Michael Christian, and the Philharmonic Society and
Royal Society of Musicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Fetis, M., his Eastern theory of the Bow, 14; his notice of
Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

_f_-holes, or Sound-holes, their importance . . . . . . . . . . 40

Fichtold, Hans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Fichtl, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Ficker, Johann Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Ficker, Johann Gotlieb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Fiddle Marks and the Credulous Dabblers . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Fiddle Trade, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Finger-board, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Fiorillo, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Firth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Fischer, Zacharie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Flanders, early musical culture in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Fleury, Benoist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Forster, Simon Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Forster, William (i.), spinning-wheel and Violin-maker . . . . . 309

Forster, William (ii.), spinning-wheel and Violin-maker, and
village Violinist; copyist of Stainer, and of the Amatis;
excellent character of his work; his instruments prized by
Lindley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Forster, William (