be added to the Double Bass,
which would "give clearness to many rapid passages which at present only
make a rumbling noise."

{77b} On Mace's title-page he describes himself as "one of the Clerks of
Trinity Colledge in the University of Cambridge."

{85} See my book, _Rustic Sounds_, 1917, where the pipe and tabor are
more fully treated.

{87} A curious rustic shawm which survived in Oxfordshire until modern
times is the Whithorn or May Horn. It was made by a strip of bark
twisted into a conical tube fixed together with hawthorn prickles and
sounded by a reed made of the green bark of the young willow. The
instruments were made every year for the Whit Monday hunt which took
place in the forest.

{88} They were also known as wayte pipes, after the watchmen (waytes)
who played on them.

{89a} It is believed to have given its name to the well-known dance.

{89b} Galpin, p. 172.

{90} A straight horn, however, existed.

{91} So spelled, in order to distinguish it from the cornet a piston,
once so popular.

{92} Mr Dolmetsch, _op. cit._, p. 459, says that the serpent "was still
common in French churches about the middle of the nineteenth century; and
although, as a rule, the players had no great skill, those who have heard
its tone combined with deep men's voices in plain-song melodies, know
that no other wind or string instrument has efficiently replaced it."

{94a} No specimen of the true portative is known to be in existence
(Galpin, p. 228).

{94b} _Rustic Sounds_, p. 197.

{96a} Page 244.

{96b} Page 249.

{96c} The old name for the kettle-drum was _nakers_, a word of Arabic or
Saracenic origin.

{96d} The larger of the kettle-drums has a range of five notes from the
bass F, immediately below the line. The smaller drum's range (also of
five notes) is from the B flat, just below the highest note of the bigger
drum (p. 253).

{97} The earliest use of the name kettle-drum is in 1551 (Galpin, p.
251).

{100a} The name, however, is apparently not as old as the ceremonies.
It is said by Britten and Holland (_Dictionary of Plant-names_) to have
been invented by Gerard (1597).

{100b} Prior, _The Popular Names of British Plants_, ed. iii., 1879, p.
89.

{100c} Blomefield (formerly Jenyns) was a contemporary of my father's at
Cambridge, and was remarkable for wide knowledge, and especially for the
minute accuracy of his work. He kept for many years a diary of the dates
of flow