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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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1APPENDIX.
3No. I.
5METHOD OF TRACING A BEAUTIFUL MODEL FOR A VIOLIN, BY MEANS OF A GRADUATED PERPENDICULAR LINE.*
7After having prepared the wood for the back and belly in the manner stated in the first chapter of this work, and in the form described in Fig. 1, draw a perpendicular line down the middle of the flat side of the piece intended for the back, of the exact length required for the body of the instrument, and divide it into 72 equal parts, as shown in Fig. 4. This must be done with the greatest accuracy, for on it depends the correctness of the whole.
9* From Wettengel's Lehrbuch der Anfertigung und Reparatur aller Gattungen von italienischen und deutschen Geigen (Ilmenau, 1828), which has been preferred to a somewhat similar method by Bagatella, on account of its greater completeness, &c. The original tract of Bagatella, published at Padua, in 1786, being difficult to obtain, those who wish to see his method may consult the German translation of J. O. H. Schaum, Ueber den Bau der Violinen, Bratschen, Violoncells und Vioions (Leipzig), or the works of Wettengel, Gretschel, Welcker von Gontershausen, Zamminer, or Abele, mentioned in the present treatise. The method put forth as Bagatella's by P. Davidson (see The Violin, pp. 115 et seq.) is spurious, although given as genuine by Maugin, in his Manuel du Luthier (Paris, 1834).—Tr.
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