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A treatise on the structure and preservation of the violin and all other bow-instruments; together with an account of the most celebrated makers, and of the genuine characteristics of their instruments;, 1860
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1CHAPTER IV.
3OF THE REPAIR, PRESERVATION, AND METHOD OF BRINGING OUT THE TONE OF INSTRUMENTS.
5I will now state the rules necessary to be observed in endeavouring to improve faulty instruments; which reminds me that Herr Schubert, in the 47th number of the Leipzig Musical Gazette, for 1803, promised to publish a work on this subject; but I know not whether it has yet appeared.
7The manner of taking off the belly is sufficiently known to all practical instrument-makers. After the instrument has been taken to pieces, the back and belly must be measured with the double callipers, to ascertain whether both have corresponding proportions of thickness, and whether the breast is the thickest part. The middle of the back, too, of an equal breadth with the bridge, must be at least as thick as the belly. If this is found correct, and the cheeks are but a little thinner, and if the back and belly then diminish in thickness down to the edges, until they are only half the strength of the breast where they meet the sides and the upper and lower end blocks, the construction is mathematically true in the most important respect. But should any defect exist in the finishing of the instrument, which renders the tone coarse, or difficult of production, the fault lies in the bass-bar, which, from being too long,
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