Excerpt from Saint Cecilias Hall in the Niddary WyndVii copies of his works on musical subjects, but placed at my disposal, for purposes of illustration in this work, his interesting collection of portraits of musicians, as well as several unique musical relics, amongst which I would specially mention the manuscript copy of the 'index to the whole Musick belonging to the Edinburgh Musical Society, i7sz.' From this precious volume, the only one of its kind, and therefore absolutely un replaceable, Mr. Marr gave permission to repro duce the page we thought the most interesting. To Mr. John Glen, musical-instrument maker, Edinburgh, my sincere thanks are due for his kindness in critically reading Chapter IV., which deals with subjects - foreign musicians in Edin burgh and the origin of Scottish song-tunes upon which, from his life - long study of them, he can speak with indisputable authority.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.