Evans, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Evelyn, John, on celebrity of old Lutinists . . . . . . . . . . 263 Experiments as to tension of Violin strings . . . . . . . . . . 54 F Falaise, copied Amati and Stradivari; good work . . . . . . . . 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 (iii.), excellent work and model . . . . . . . 312 Forster, William (iv.), good work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 Fountaine, Mr., his collection of instruments . . . . . . . . . 366 "Four Corners" of the Violono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25