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An Encyclopedia of the Violin, 1925
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1hair it should whiten it and not give it a yellowish tinge. When the bow rubs against the strings, the colophony should fall to the foot of the bridge in a white powder, and should not blacken the strings where the bow attackss them. Finally, good colophony should not stick to the fingers when a small piece is broken off.
3We have seen many musicians cook white resin or terebinth with vinegar. This is the worst thing possible to do, for the vinegar, mixing with the resins, produces a rosin whose use, in place of tone, yields only a detestable whistling.
5The real secret of making good rosin makes clear that there is nothing complicated about its preparation in itself, and yet it is decidedly worth knowing.
7White resin or galipot should be melted in an unused glazed pot over a moderate coal fire. As the resin melts it should be poured into a second pot, being filtered through a clean cloth, rather coarse in texture. This second pot, similar to the first, should be ready at hand, near the fire. The colophony is then poured into small paper rolls, or into small boxes or cartons which will give it a tablet form.
9The best and finest rosin can be made by distilling Venetian terebinth, and this variety of colophony is practically white in appearance.
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