. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Mozart, Leopold, and his "Method" for the Violin; his early
musical genius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Musical strings, materials used and places of manufacture . . . 46

Musicians, Royal Society of, its origin . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

"Musick's Monument" of Thomas Mace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

N

Nadotti, Giuseppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Namy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Naylor, Isaac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Neck of the Violin, Form and material of . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Nella, Raffaele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Netherlands, love of music in the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Nezot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Nichols, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Nicolas, Didier, Stradivari copyist; good tone . . . . . . . . . 250

Nicolas, Francois (Nicolas Fourrier) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Nicolas, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Niggel, Simpertus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Norborn, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Norman, Barak, his instruments best of old English character;
worked with Nathaniel Cross; follower of Maggini model . . . . 323

Norris John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

North, Hon. Roger, his "Memoirs of Music" . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Number of constituent parts of the Violin . . . . . . . . . . . 35

O

Obelisk, Egyptian, stringed instruments on . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Ohberg, Johann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

"Old Borax," and the Fiddle Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Old Masters, their great care in selection of material . . . . . 33

Ole Bull and Fiddle varnish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

"Orfeo," The, of Monteverde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Orpheus and Apollo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Orsini, Cardinal, and Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Ortega . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Ott, Johann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Otto, C. U. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Otto, Carl .