Musical Instruments [1908]

Chapter 27: Transcriber’s Note

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About This Book

This work provides a concise historical overview of musical instruments from ancient times to the present, highlighting significant developments and variations across cultures. It discusses prehistoric relics, including a notable musical artifact discovered in France, and examines the evolution of instruments through various historical periods. The text is supplemented with illustrations that aim to clarify the information presented, making it accessible to readers interested in the history of music and its instruments.

Transcriber’s Note

Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the book, preceding the Index. Dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged. Inconsistent hyphenation was not changed. Misspelled words were not changed.

Obvious printing errors, such as partially printed letters, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate words and syllables at line endings or page breaks were removed. Two unnecessary commas in the Index were deleted.

Fig. 53 was moved to appear in numerical sequence.