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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, 1875
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1which the wood is cut and filed away on the outside; and when the convex part is entirely finished, the inside is worked out in a similar manner: in doing this, a pair of double callipers are highly necessary, for the purpose of carefully ascertaining the thickness in every part of the belly. The f-holes are now cut out, and the bass-bar glued on. The back is formed precisely in the same way.
3The sides, between the back and the belly, are first made perfectly straight and smooth, then bent on a hot iron, and afterwards glued, in a frame or mould, to the corner and end blocks; the linings are then stuck to the sides above and below, and, when the whole is dry, the latter with the blocks and linings are made even, removed from the frame, and glued to the back: this being done, the belly is put on, and the purfling let into it and the back.
5Lastly: the neck with the scroll is fastened with glue to the upper end block, and the finger-board, nut, pegs, tail-piece, bridge, sound-post, &c., added to the whole. The other bow-instruments are constructed and put together exactly in the same manner.*
7* The order in which these various operations are performed does not always precisely agree with that mentioned by Otto; but this makes no difference to the instruments when finished.—Tr.
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