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 Q Quack Violin-Doctors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Quantz, Johann, Flautist, and Frederick the Great . . . . . . . 269 Quartette Association, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 R Rabenalt, Theodore, his drama, "Jacob Stainer" . . . . . . . . . 277 Racceris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Rambaux, Claude Victor, a clever repairer . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Rance, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Rauch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Rauch, Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Rauch, Sebastian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Raut, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Ravanon, King of Ceylon, and his instrument called the "Ravanastron" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Rawlins, Henry, patronised by Giardini . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Rayman, Jacob, founder of English Violin-making; good character of work and varnish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Reade, Charles, on the "Four Corners" of the Violono, 25; on the Violins of Stradivari, 201; on the art of "cutting," 249; his letter on the Betts Stradivari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467 Rebab, taken to Spain by the Moors, 7; in Egypt . . . . . . . . 8