“Tubular Chimes,” 131 Tuileries, 159 Tulip mania, 165-166 _Twelfth Night_, quoted, 56, 58 “Twenty-four Violins of the King,” 154-160, 169 Twenty-four Violins (Charles II), 173-174, 175-177 Tympanon, 291 Tyrol, 21, 34, 48 _Unfinished Symphony_, 239 Urfey, Thomas d’, quoted, 177 _Variations (Elgar)_, 121 Venice, opera in, 150 Verdi, 70, 82, 130, 283 Verdier, 168 Versailles, 155, 156 _Vibrato_, 154 _Vielle_, 17, 18, 43, 273 Vienna, opera in, 151 Viol, Bass, 171 Viol Family, 47, 55, 58, 67, 68, 139 Viol, tenor, 49, 67, 173 Viola, 47-54, 63, 67, 70, 236, 250; Berlioz, quoted, 53; Gasparo di Salò, 50; Lavignac, quoted, 54; Maggini, 50; strings, 47; tone, 54 _Viola d’amore_, 20, 47, 57, 58, 186 _Viola da braccio_, 47, 67, 138 _Viola da gamba_, 47, 55, 56-58, 59, 67, 136, 138, 170, 186 _Viola da spalla_, 138 Viole, 17, 43 Violin, 9-43, 49, 57, 58, 67, 146, 153, 173-176, 178, 186, 187; age of, 16, 21; ancestry, 17; bass-bar, 14, 15; belly, 12; birthplace, 21; bouts, 19, 21; bridge, 14; charm of, 9-10; construction, 13-14; corner-blocks, 18-19, 27; _f_-holes, 12, 18, 20, 30, 31; Lavignac, quoted, 42; model, 11; neck, 16; nervous system, 15; parts of, 13; positions, 38; purfling, 13, 23; ribs, 12; scroll, 11, 16; soul of the, 15; sound-holes, 12, 18, 20, 22, 23, 27, 30, 31, 57; sound-post, 14, 15; tension, 15; tongue of the, 14; varnish, 13, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31-32, 35; voice, 10; waist, 18; wood, 13, 23, 25, 34-35 Violin Family, 178 Violin, the Little, 49 _Violino_, 48, 138, 139 _Violino piccolo_, 49 Violins, Amati, 25-26; Bergonzi, 33; Berlioz, quoted, 42-43; Gasparo di Salò, 22; Guarneri, 26, 32-23; Maggini, 23-24; Stainer, 34; Stradivari, 30-32 Violoncello, 55-66, 67, 69, 146, 175, 183, 191, 236, 242; Berlioz, quoted, 65-66; Lavignac, quoted, 65; strings, 64 Violone, 47, 68 Viols, 58, 138-139, 141, 146, 156, 173, 175-176; chest of, 29; concert of, 62; consort of, 57, 62 Viotti, 44, 60 Virginal, 293, 295 Vizé, 167 Vogler, Abbé, 234 Voltaire, 61 Wagner, 52-53, 62, 70, 77, 82, 95, 101, 109, 115, 126, 127, 129, 147, 256-260, 261, 262, 264, 265, 278, 289; conductor, 256; quoted, 248, 261 Walküre, Die, 127, 289 Weber, Carl Maria von, 81, 94, 100-101, 105, 106, 232-238, 244; conductor, 235; quoted, 224 Widor, quoted, 124 Wieprecht, W. F., 115 Wilhelmj, 256 _William Tell_, overture, 62, 90, 130 Wind instruments, 141, 152 Wind-machine, 129 Wodehouse, A. W., quoted, 232 “Wolf,” the, 50 Wood, Anthony, quoted, 175-177 Woodwind, 4-5, 72-102, 184, 189, 258 Xylophone, 128 Zimbalist, Efrem, 23-24 Zinke, 115