Arghool, Egyptian reed flute 35-36, its reeds 71, description 55 Arica, Peruvian flutes from 18 Aristophanes on flutes 73 Aristotle, on the Bombyx flutes 99, on _Mese_ 103, Aristoxenus his pupil 341, on development 348 Aristoxenus, musician and philosopher 341, his works 343 Art is the superfluous 285 Arunda Donax, for reeds 49 Ashmolean Museum, the Lady Maket pipes now in 41 Asia Minor 238, minstrels in 337 Asiatic music distracting 21 Assur-ban-ipal, slabs at British Museum 295 Assyrian, Double pipes 55, 60, Dulcimers 253, harp, representation of 262, route to Greece 350 Athenæus Pronomus 92 Athene, the Goddess, 128, 138 Athens, founding of 327 Athens Museum, Apollo 322 Auletris, flute player 73 Auloi, Greek flutes 73 Babylon, Berosus on 170 Babylonia 304, 314 Bach, J. S., use of the thumb 85 Bailey, J., Festus quoted 133 Ball, Rev. J. C., Turano Sythic speech 169 Bamboo Books, The ancient Chinese 276 Bamboo Forests in China 193 Bark, boats made of 286 Beethoven, his folk song themes 83, his melodies 180, his famous three knocks of Fate 273 Berlin Museum, Egyptian lyre in 298 Berosus on Babylon 170 Bird’s Nest or Chinese Sheng 10, 182 Blaikley, J. D., experiments on Egyptian flutes 57 Bombyx flutes 99, 102 Book of Changes, Chinese 191 Borneo, Cane Harps from 303-4 Boscawen, St. Chad, on Chaldea 4, on Persia 6, metal working 208, Lute on slab from Tello 352 Bow with boat form of early lyres 285, 289 Boxing, Etruscan to sounds of flutes 78 British Museum, relics in: Apollo, Statue of 15 Pans Pipes or Syrinx 17 Peruvian Pan pipes 18 Peruvian Stone Syrinx 17 Egyptian Gingras, part of 28-33, 48 Cymbals found in Egyptian mummy 29 Wall painting of Egyptian ladies playing the double pipes 46 Copy of a Corneto painting 60-67 Song on a Chaldean tablet 62 Fragment of flute bulb 80 Greek Monaulos, two specimens 84 Chinese Encyclopia shelved there 190 Leva flute pipe 246 Harps on Assyrian slabs 262 Roman Cornu and Trumpets 270, Litmus 271 Egyptian Boated lyres, 288 Three thousand gems, 311 Bronze of Hermes, 308 Chelys lyre, parts of, 310 Herculanæum, painting of Apollo with harps, 318 Calliope, Hymn to the Muse, 145, 163 Bruce, the Traveller, Grand Harp painting found by, 290 Brussels Museum, Catalogue of, 240 Krena Flute from, 246 Buddha and Confucius, 256 Bulb found by Maspero, 124-5 Bulbs for flute mouthpiece shewn on vases, 121 fragment of, in British Museum, 80 Burney, Dr., on Hermes lyre, 308 his picture of one kind of lyre, 318 Caspian Sea Mountains, 350 Capistrum for flute player, 70 Caucasian Mountains, 219, 350 Cecrops, founder of Athens, 65, 327 Cephisis, River of, 128-9 Cesnola collection at New York, 71, 100 his Salamis flute, 115