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How to make a violin. And Violin notes by Ole Bull, 1900
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1CHAPTER XIX.
3THE REMAINING ACCESSORIES OF THE VIOLIN.
5THESE are the tail-piece, bridge, pegs and strings, which can all be bought of any instrument dealer.
7I might give the amateur minute directions for making the first three named, but as I only propose writing on the making of the violin, I have expressly omitted matters which merely pertain to the fitting-up of the instrument preparatory to playing. When Luigi Tarisio came to Paris with a number of priceless Italian violins in his possession, he brought nothing but the violins—a mere assortment of wooden boxes, as turned out by the master hands of their makers. Those parts which gave a finished appearance to the instrument were wanting. An old "Strad" may in its time have had fifty tail-pieces or a score of finger-boards; and however
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