Mast, Jean Laurent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Mast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Maucotel, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Maucotel, Charles Adolphe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Maussiell, Leonard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Maher (Maier), Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Mayseder, Joseph, Violinist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408 Mayson, W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 Meares, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 Medard, Francois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Medard, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Medard, Nicolas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Meiberi, Francesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 "Memoirs of Music," Roger North's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Mendelssohn and Haydn as performers on the Violin . . . . . . . 407 Mennegand, Charles, distinguished as a maker, and also as a repairer and "cutter" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Messeguer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Meusidler, Johann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Mezadri, Alessandro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Mezadri, Francesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 "Michael Schnapps," the Fiddle Ogre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487 Mier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 Miremont, Claude Augustin, excellent work as a copyist . . . . . 249 Missing Scroll, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452 Modena, Duke of, and Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Modessier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Mohr, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Moldonner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Molique, Bernard, Violinist, and composer . . . . . . . . . . . 408 Monochord, Arabian invention of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Montagnana, Domenico, pupil of Antonio Stradivari; termed "the Mighty Venetian;" his work frequently attributed to other great makers; comparison of work with that of his fellow-maker, Carlo Bergonzi; increasing popularity of his instruments; high character of his varnish . . . . . . . 152-157 Montagnana instrument shot through the body, A . . . . . . . . . 456 Montaldi, Gregorio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Monteverde, Claudio, his opera "Orfeo" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378 Morella, famous for Viols and Lutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Moorish influence on music in Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Mori, Nicholas, Violinist, and the Royal Academy of Music . . . 401 Morisca, or Morris Dance, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10