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How to make a violin. And Violin notes by Ole Bull, 1900
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1rendering it shrill or harsh, and gives additional beauty to the wood. That its ingredients were indigenous to the Italian soil is out of the question. It is well known that much of the maple used by the violin-makers of that day came from Turkey. Imported to Venice, it was employed in the construction of oars, etc. The extremely curly pieces, owing to their liability to fracture under rough usage, were consequently rejected, to be appropriated by the violin-makers. Venice and Genoa held great command over the entire Eastern trade, and undoubtedly through these ports came the various gums and colouring substances of which this varnish was made.
3"Turning to other countries of Europe—Germany, France and England—and examining the productions of their most celebrated violin-makers contemporaneous with the Cremonese school, scarcely a trace of the Italian varnish is to be met with. In German instruments the varnish is distinguished by extreme hardness, a glassy lustre, and an absence of all delicate shades of
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