V. of Spain, his visit to Cremona . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Phillips, a Welsh Violinist, Dr. Johnson's Epitaph on . . . . . 431

Picino, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Pierray, Claude, excellent work, Italian character, good
varnish; an example possessed by Tom Britton . . . . . . . . . 250

Piete, N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Pique, F. L., copyist of Stradivari, school of Lupot; good
material and workmanship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Pirot, Claude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Plack, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Platner, Michel, resemblance of his work to that of Tecchler . . 160

Pleasures of Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

Plectrum, Reference to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Plowden Collection, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Pollitzer, Adolphe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Pollusca, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Pons, Cesar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Pons, Guitar-maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Pope Pius IX. and the musician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Porlon, Peeter (or Borlon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Possen, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Postiglione, V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Powell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Pressenda, Giovanni Francesco, high character of his work, and
especially of his varnish; his instruments of Amatese and
Stradivarian models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Preston, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Prices of Violins, &c., at various periods . . . . . . . . . 334-338

"Prison Fiddles," of Guarneri del Gesu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Progress of the Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Provence and the origin of the Geige . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Ptolemeus, Claudius, on Harmonic Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Puppo, Violinist, Anecdote of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Purcell, Henry, his Sonatas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Purfling of the Violin, 40; of the Brothers Amati . . . . . . . 84

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